The future perfect is used to describe an event that is expected or planned to happen before another event in the future. It is a grammatical combination of the future tense, or other marking of future time, and the perfect, itself a combination of tense and aspect.
Read more about Future Perfect: English, Spanish, French, German, Dutch, Greek, Latin, Italian, Serbo-Croatian
Famous quotes containing the words future and/or perfect:
“To pin your hopes upon the future is to consign those hopes to a hypothesis, which is to say, a nothingness. Here and now is what we must contend with.”
—Angela Carter (19401992)
“You are disdainful and magnificent
Your perfect body and your pompous gait,
Your dark eyes flashing solemnly with hate,”
—Helene Johnson (b. 1907)
Related Subjects
Related Phrases
Related Words