Applying Future Perfect Continuous Quiz: Grammar Practice

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Applying Future Perfect Continuous Correctly - Quiz

Ready for a full review and challenge round? This quiz reinforces everything you’ve learned about the future perfect continuous tense through mixed practice—recognition, corrections, matching, and fill-in-the-blank questions. You’ll focus on using the tense to connect duration + a future point in time, and you’ll practice avoiding common mistakes (like... see moremissing “have” or using the wrong verb form). By the end, you’ll have the confidence to use this tense smoothly in both speaking and writing.
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3. Which sentence uses future perfect continuous?

By next year, we will have been living here for ten years.

By next year, we lived here for ten years.

By next year, we will live here for ten years.

By next year, we have lived here for ten years.

Future perfect continuous uses will have been + verb-ing to show an action that continues up to a future point in time.

Explanation

Future perfect continuous uses will have been + verb-ing to show an action that continues up to a future point in time.

4. Which sentence has incorrect tense?

He will have been studying math all morning.

He will have been study math all morning.

He will have been studying since breakfast.

He will have been studying for hours.

After will have been, the verb must be in the -ing form, not the base form study.

Explanation

After will have been, the verb must be in the -ing form, not the base form study.

5. Which phrase shows proper formation?

Will + verb

Will have + past participle

Will have been + -ing

Have + verb-ing

The future perfect continuous tense is formed with will + have + been + verb-ing.

Explanation

The future perfect continuous tense is formed with will + have + been + verb-ing.

6. Identify the correctly written sentence.

By noon, she will have been cooking all morning.

By noon, she will be cooking all morning.

By noon, she has been cooking all morning.

By noon, she had been cooking all morning.

The sentence correctly shows an ongoing action continuing up to a future time using future perfect continuous.

Explanation

The sentence correctly shows an ongoing action continuing up to a future time using future perfect continuous.

7. Which sentence shows an error?

By June, I will have been learning guitar for a year.

By June, I will have learned guitar for a year.

By June, I will have been practicing daily.

By June, I will have been improving my chords.

Will have learned is future perfect, not future perfect continuous, and it does not emphasize ongoing duration.

Explanation

Will have learned is future perfect, not future perfect continuous, and it does not emphasize ongoing duration.

8. Which sentence describes an ongoing future event?

By this time tomorrow, he will have been flying for ten hours.

He flew for ten hours.

He will fly for ten hours.

He has flown for ten hours.

The sentence shows an action that will still be ongoing at a specific future time.

Explanation

The sentence shows an action that will still be ongoing at a specific future time.

9. Select two correct sentences.

I will have been waiting here for hours.

I will have been waited here for hours.

They will have been reading all day.

They will has been reading all day.

Sentences a and c correctly use will have been + verb-ing.

Explanation

Sentences a and c correctly use will have been + verb-ing.

10. Select two incorrect sentences.

She will have been working late.

She will been working late.

He will have been worked late.

He will have been working late.

Sentence b is missing have, and c incorrectly uses a past participle instead of -ing.

Explanation

Sentence b is missing have, and c incorrectly uses a past participle instead of -ing.

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11. Future perfect continuous connects an ongoing action to a specific future point.

True

False

This tense shows how long an action has been happening up to a future time.

Explanation

This tense shows how long an action has been happening up to a future time.

12. This tense can describe past actions only.

True

False

Future perfect continuous is used for actions connected to the future, not the past.

Explanation

Future perfect continuous is used for actions connected to the future, not the past.

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