Future perfect continous tense

 Untuk menyatakan bahwa kejadian / aktivitas akan terus terjadi / dilakukan sampai batas waktu tertentu dimasa mendatang

Rumus
Positif (+)
Subject + shall/will + have + been + verb-ing + object
Negatif (-)
Subject + shall/will + not + have + been + verb-ing + object
Tanya (?)
Shall/will + subject + have + been + verb-ing + object ?

Contoh
( + ) Farmers in Jati Bali will have been growing rice crops for 40 years by the end of this year. (Petani-petani di Jati Bali akan telah bercocok tanam padi selama 40 tahun sebelum tahun ini berakhir).
( - ) When my dad picks me up at 1 p.m., I will not have been being at school for 10 hours yet.
( ? ) When your dad picks you up at 1 p.m., will you have been being at school for 10 hours?

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Future Perfect Tense

 The only use of this tense is to talk about future actions that will be finished before some specified point in the future.

Pola

Positive Sentences
Subject + Auxiliary verb + Auxiliary verb + Verb + ing
e.g. I/a dog etc. will have e.g. eaten/given/gone etc.

    Examples
    I will have retired by the end of this year.
    I read 40 pages a day. If I keep up the pace, I will have read the book by Tuesday.
Questions
Auxiliary verb + Subject + Auxiliary verb + Verb + ing
will e.g. I/a dog etc. have e.g. eaten/given/gone etc.

    Examples
    Will they have graduated from Cambridge by July 2009?
    Will I have retired by the end of the year?
    Will you have bought a new processor by the end of this week?
Negative Sentences
Subject + Auxiliary verb + not + Auxiliary verb + Verb + ing
e.g. I/a dog etc. will not have e.g. eaten/given/gone etc.

Examples
They won't have graduated from from Cambridge by July 2009.
My uncle won't have retired by the end of the year.

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Future Continous Tense

future continuous tense menyatakan kejadian/aktivitas yang sedang berlangsung in the future

Pola
Subject + will + be + (verb 1 + ing ) + object + modifier
Subject + [ ( is / am / are ) going to ] +be + ( verb 1 + ing ) object + modifier

contoh
Farmers in Jati Bali will be growing rice crops at 9 a.m. tomorrow. (Petani-petani di Jati Bali akan sedang menanam padi jam 9 pagi besok)

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Past Perfect Continous Tense

Past perfect continuous tense digunakan untuk menyatakan peristiwa atau kegiatan yang telah dan sedang berlangsung sebelum peristiwa lain terjadi di masa lampau.

Pola kalimat:
(+) S + had + been + V-ing
(-) S + had + not + been + V-ing
(?) Had + S + been + V-ing


contoh:
He had been living in Jakarta about ten years (+)
- Dia telah tinggal di Jakarta sekitar 10 tahun
He had not been living in Jakarta about ten years (-)
- dia belum tinggal di Jakarta sekitar 10 tahun
Had He been living in Jakarta about ten years ? (?)
- apakah dia telah tinggal di Jakarta selamat 10 tahun ?

Catatan

Pola kalimat past perfect continuous tense juga dipakai dalam kalimat tak langsung (indirect/reported speech). Bentuk kalimat tak langsung ini sepadan dengan bentuk kalimat langsung (direct speech) dengan pola past continuous tense dan present perfect continuous tense.

Jane said, “I have been gardening all afternoon.”
Jane said she had been gardening all afternoon. (indirect speech)

When the police questioned him, John said “I was working late in the office that night.”
When the police questioned him, John told them he had been working late in the office that night. (indirect speech)

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