Definitions for future perfect

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Random House Webster's College Dictionary

fu′ture per′fect(adj.)

  1. of or designating a verb tense or form indicating that the action or state expressed by the verb will be completed by or extend up to a time in the future, and consisting in English of will have followed by a past participle, as will have finished in

    I will have finished it by then.

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  2. (n.)the future perfect tense.

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  3. a form in this tense.

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. future perfect, future perfect tense(noun)

    a perfective tense used to describe action that will be completed in the future

    "`I will have finished' is an example of the future perfect"

Wiktionary

  1. future perfect(Noun)

    A tense that expresses action completed at some time in the future; in English it is formed by use of will have (or shall have) and a past participle


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