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Six Minute Grammar from BBCLearningEnglish.com hello and.
Welcome to Six Minute Grammar with me.
Callum and me, Finn.
Today's program is all about the future perfect verb form.
Yes, by the end of this program you will have learnt how and when to use this form.
Ah, so there was our first example.
You will have learnt.
You'll hear lots more examples in the.
Program and we'll have a quiz.
Now, we usually use the future perfect to talk about an event that we predict or expect to happen or finish before a particular time in the future.
Listen to this example from by the.
Time Christine arrives, we'll have had dinner.
So we'll have had.
That's we will have had in the future perfect tells us that we will finish dinner before Christine gets back.
We might be having dinner right up to just before she returns, or we might finish it an hour before, but.
In any case we will finish before she arrives.
We are using the future perfect to make a prediction about the future.