{"id":3060,"date":"2016-04-20T08:00:35","date_gmt":"2016-04-20T15:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/magoosh.com\/toefl\/?p=3060"},"modified":"2020-12-10T13:43:45","modified_gmt":"2020-12-10T21:43:45","slug":"magoosh-comics-future-perfect-and-future-perfect-continuous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/magoosh.com\/toefl\/magoosh-comics-future-perfect-and-future-perfect-continuous\/","title":{"rendered":"Magoosh Comics: Future Perfect and Future Perfect Continuous"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The future tense is the trickiest of tenses in English. And for many students, the hardest forms of future tense are the very similar <a href=\"https:\/\/magoosh.com\/toefl\/talking-about-the-future-part-2-the-perfect-and-continuous-futures\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">future perfect and future perfect continuous tenses<\/a>. Fortunately there\u2019s a simple way to remember the difference between these two tenses. The future perfect describes an action that will end in the future. The future continuous describes an action that will <strong>continue<\/strong> in the future.<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re still having trouble <em>picturing <\/em>this difference, below is a comic strip that can help you easily understand and master these two ways of talking about future actions.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3061 size-large aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/magoosh-company-site\/wp-content\/uploads\/toefl\/files\/2016\/04\/05210957\/mc-fpafpc_img1-600x945.gif\" alt=\"mc-fpafpc_img1\" width=\"600\" height=\"945\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The future tense is the trickiest of tenses in English. And for many students, the hardest forms of future tense are the very similar future perfect and future perfect continuous tenses. Fortunately there\u2019s a simple way to remember the difference between these two tenses. 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