Grammar: Future Perfect

Future Perfect Tense

Exercise 1. Translate into Russian.

1. Will you have come home by 5 o'clock? 2. We shall have erected this dam by 2002. 3. In three years' time I shall have taken my degree. 4. John will not have signed the contract before we come. 5. Will you have repaired the watch by Friday? 6. John will have examined the car well before he buys it. 7. I shall leave for Moscow as soon as I have finished my business here. 8. He will not see you before I have spoken to him. 9. She will return this magazine after she has read it. 10. Don't come here before you have finished writing this letter. 11. I shall lend you this journal as soon as I have read it. 12. As soon as I have come home, I will call you. 13. After you have finished writing this document, please, call the manager about it. 14. When you have done the work, you will have plenty of time. 15. As soon as you have got any news, let me know.

Exercise 2. Supply the Future Perfect Tense of the verbs in brackets.

1. I hope you (go) to bed by eleven. 2. She (listen) to the poem many times before she understands all the words. 3. They (get) you into trouble before you can say knife. 4. I hope the telegram (come) before they start for the North. 5. The news of their marriage (reach) their village before they get there. 6. She (be) there many times before she meets him again. 7. They believe the ship (come) back by the end of the navigation. 8. I suppose she (make) some provisions for Maggie before she leaves for America. 9. They (take) their last exam by the first of July. 10. He (write) the last chapter of his new book by the end of the year. 11. By the time you come I (clean) the flat and (cook) dinner. 12. By next winter he (to sold) all his things. 13. By next month he (to write) his fourth play. 14. We (to solve) this difficult problem by the end of the week. 15. The wind (to drop) by then. 16. When the sun sets I (to read) this book. 17. If you come at nine they (to have) dinner. 18. If you ring me up after nine o'clock, I (to speak) to the doctor. 19. We (to travel) twenty miles more before we cross the frontier. 20. Next year we (to be) together for ten years. 21. He (to leave) when you arrive.