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By the time you chattering birds get through arguing moot points, you will have been blithering long enough for GB to post.

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Originally posted by Nordlys
See post #7. Yours wasn't future perfect continuous.
It is continuous. The act of forgetting, especially in a group context, is a gradual, ongoing process.
For example: My memory is fading with the passing years, and by the time I am 90 years old I will have
forgotten the names of my ex-girlfriends and all of the stars in Ursa Major. Strictly speaking, the names
will have been forgotten by me.

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Originally posted by HandyAndy
It [b]is continuous. The act of forgetting, especially in a group context, is a gradual, ongoing process.
For example: My memory is fading with the passing years, and by the time I am 90 years old I will have
forgotten the names of my ex-girlfriends and all of the stars in Ursa Major.[/b]
Yes, but that doesn't change the fact that "it will have been forgotten" is not future perfect continuous. It just states the result, not how we will have arrived there. It could be because we would have been forgetting, or it could be because we would suddenly have forgotten.

Edit: And if you don't believe me, maybe you believe this page that has the passive form, too: http://www.englishpage.com/verbpage/activepassive.html

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Originally posted by Nordlys
Yes, but that doesn't change the fact that "it will have been forgotten" is not future perfect continuous. It just states the result, not how we will have arrived there. It could be because we would have been forgetting, or it could be because we would suddenly have forgotten.

Edit: And if you don't believe me, maybe you believe this page that has the passive form, too: http://www.englishpage.com/verbpage/activepassive.html
The page correctly states that both active and passive voices can be used in the future perfect continuous tense.

Forgetting "suddenly" may happen to one individual, but certainly not to a group of people at the same instant.
In the sense I used it, "forgotten" meant out of style, passe, not on the top of everybody's agenda. When
forgetting is a continuing process (like painting, working, breathing) I believe it can correctly be used in the
future perfect continuous tense.

At the very least, it's borderline.

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Originally posted by HandyAndy
The page correctly states that both active and passive voices can be used in the future perfect continuous tense.

Forgetting "suddenly" may happen to one individual, but certainly not to a group of people at the same instant.
In the sense I used it, "forgotten" meant out of style, passe, not on the top of everybody's agenda. When
forgetting is a co ...[text shortened]... y be used in the
future perfect continuous tense.

At the very least, it's borderline.
Forgotten is a past participle, not continuous...sorry.

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Originally posted by Nordlys
We can't really know yet if you will have been understanding.
d) Future perfect continuous

Each student must think of 5 things that they are doing and will still be doing this time next year, they must also write one other thing about this activity. They must then list these things in the following way "By this time next year i will have been going to my Karate class for 5 years. I will be a brown belt and will be able to teach other students". "By this time next year i will have been coming to my English class for 2 years. I hope i will be able to understand my teacher".

The students are given a list of professions (a teacher, a soldier, a fireman, etc). They will be asked to write a few sentences about what they can say about these people in future perfect continuous tense. The students can be grouped and asked to think of x amount of sentences for each profession.

"The teacher will have been teaching for 3 years by next summer. He will have been very happy with his work, and will have taught 50 students"

"The fireman will ahve been a fireman for a long time by 2015, and will have been putting out fires since he was a 18"

I think this activity is best suited for a more advanced class as there is a fair amount of thinking involved in making up sentences for these imaginary people.

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Originally posted by Nordlys
Yes, but that doesn't change the fact that "it will have been forgotten" is not future perfect continuous.
Light dawns. 🙂

You are correct, continuity is beside the point. The way I used it, forgotten is an adjective, not a verb.

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Originally posted by FreakyKBH
By the time you chattering birds get through arguing moot points, you will have been blithering long enough for GB to post.
Important, Sir Freak, not only to see into things but through them. In this instance,

nothing more or less than a friendly group marathon which is sort of entertaining.

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Originally posted by huckleberryhound
I've already finished this. It was merely an interesting diversion for all those intelligent memebrs of the commumity. I will understand if you don't wish to participate 😉
One would think that anyone who knows what future perfect continuous means, would have an easy time spelling "members."

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Originally posted by Grampy Bobby
Important, Sir Freak, not only to see into things but through them. In this instance,

nothing more or less than a friendly group marathon which is sort of entertaining.
Show's over, Bobby. Glad you were sort of entertained. Don't let the swinging door hit you on the way out.

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Originally posted by HandyAndy
Show's over, Bobby. Glad you were sort of entertained. Don't let the swinging door hit you on the way out.
Of all the GF curators that will have ever been, I will always look back on HA as the favorite that was ever a has been.

Or something like that.

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Originally posted by FreakyKBH
By the time you chattering birds get through arguing moot points, you will have been blithering long enough for GB to post.
What exactly was the moot point? Do you believe grammar rules to be transient?

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Originally posted by Nordlys
Why am I the only person in this thread who is using the future perfect continuous tense? Will nobody else have been using it tomorrow either?
Because the others here know not to use it with stative verbs, which you have done, in error, I so solemnly inform you.

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Originally posted by avalanchethecat
My ferociously brainy bird says that 'future' is a form, not a tense. 😛
Correct. English has two tenses, present simple and past simple. The rest are combinations of modal verbs and auxiliaries with participles and gerunds. Et ceteraaaaa

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What did the TEFL teacher say to an Upper-Intermediate student when they met on a date?

'You are my future perfect.'

Boom boom!

As to whether or not the romance endured is another thing, perhaps future perfect continuous cannot, in turn, be applied to non-action relationships either.

TEFL jargon, sorry.