Pengertian Future Perfect Continuous dan Contohnya

Ketika mengekspresikan suatu kegiatan yang telah berlangsung dan masih akan berlangsung di masa depan, kalimat apa yang biasa kamu ucapkan? Ternyata dalam kaidah bahasa Inggris, ini termasuk ke dalam future perfect continuous tense. Apa yang dimaksud future perfect continuous?

Future perfect continuous disebut juga sebagai future perfect progressive. Kalimat yang menggunakan bentuk tense ini lebih fokus pada durasi dari kegiatan yang masih dilakukan sampai waktu selanjutnya di masa depan.

Pada dasarnya, future perfect continuous memiliki kesamaan makna dengan penggunaan future perfect. Misalnya seperti contoh kalimat berikut:

• When Mr. John retires next month, he will have taught for 40 years.

• When Mr. John retires next month, he will have been teaching for 40 years.

Berdasarkan contoh kalimat tersebut, meskipun terdapat perbedaan antara taught dan have been teaching arti yang diberikannya adalah sama.

Agar mempermudah dalam menggunakan future perfect continuous, kamu bisa perhatikan hal-hal berikut ini:

• I will have been sleeping for an hour by the time she gets home.

• In August, I will have been studying English at EF for a year.

• When I turn fifty, I will play the guitar with the boys for thirty years.

• He will have been playing games for three hours.

• By 1998 I will have been living in New York for ten years.

• You will have been waiting here since 8 A.M.

• She will have been sleeping since 7 P.M.

• I think it will have been raining for an hour.

Contoh Kalimat Future Perfect Continuous yang Tidak Sesuai

On Monday, I will have been knowing you for 2 years.

Seharusnya: On Monday, I will have known you for 2 years.

I will have been reading forty-five books by the end of his month.

Seharusnya: I will have read forty-five books by the end of this month.

Berdasarkan penjelasan di atas, apakah kini kamu sudah bisa mengungkapkan future perfect continuous dalam bahasa Inggris? Untuk mengetahui sejauh mana kemampuanmu, yuk isi soal latihan berikut ini!

1. This traffic is terrible. I’m going to be late. By the time _____________ to the airport, Diana’s plane_____________, and she’ll be wondering where I am.

2. This morning I came to class at 8.00. Right now, it is 9.00 and I am still in class. I _____________ at this desk for an hour. By 8.30, I _____________ here for a half an hour.

3. Go ahead and leave on your vacation. Don’t worry about this work. By the time you _____________back, we _____________ care of everything.

4. I don’t understand how those marathon runners do it! The race began over an hour ago. By the time they reach the finish line, they _____________ steadily for more than two hours.

5. Putri was born in 2002. By the year 2022, she _____________ on this earth for 20 years.