Future Perfect Passive Voice: A Complete Guide

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Future Perfect Passive Voice: The future perfect tense is employed when referring to verb tenses that will be finished before a specific future time frame. Only actions that will be finished before a certain future point are allowed to be expressed in the future perfect tense. When we employ this tense, we are looking back at an activity that will be finished at a later date and projecting ourselves into the future. In the future perfect tense, we indicate that the sentence’s subject is being acted upon by using the passive voice. If you wish to know more about this, then you have come to the right place. Read this blog to learn more about the future perfect tense. 

What is Future Perfect Passive Voice?

All actions that will be finished before a certain future time frame are expressed in this tense. Only actions that will be finished before a certain time can be in the future perfect tense. To show that the sentence’s subject is being acted upon, we use them.

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How to Convert Active Voice to Future Perfect Passive Voice

Future Perfect Tense passive-voice phrases typically employ two types of auxiliary verbs, one for singular and plural nouns and pronouns. Among them are Shall Have Been and Will Have Been

The following guidelines describe how to use the tense in sentences:

  • The Active Voice sentence’s object is first changed to the Passive Voice sentence’s subject.
  • The assisting verb will have been/shall have been is used by the Passive Voice sentence’s topic.
  • We employ the verb’s past participle form.
  • Next, to identify the doer, we shall utilise the phrase “by.”
  • Next, we will change the Active Voice sentence’s subject to the Passive Voice sentence’s object.
  • If there are any words left, we will add them last.

Object + Will/Shall + Have + Been + past participle of main verb + by + Subject of Active Sentence

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Future Perfect Passive Voice Sentences

Here are some positive sentence examples in Future Perfect Tense. These will provide you with an idea of how the sentences can be constructed.

  1. The cake will have been baked by 3 pm.
  2. The report will have been written by the end of the week. 
  3. The meeting will have been going on for the past two hours by the time I arrive.
  4. The project will not been finished by tomorrow.
  5. The house will not have been cleaned by the time guests arrive. 
  6. Will the book be finished by next year?
  7. Will the dinner have been cooked by the time I get home?

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Future Perfect Passive Voice Rules

We can take the following actions to create passive questions by following the tense in these ways.

1. The auxiliary verb will/shall is used by the passive voice sentence’s subject.
2. The subject of the passive voice sentence is changed from being the object of the active voice sentence.
3. To indicate the tense of completion in a passive mood, we then add the helpful word “have been.”
4. The Main Verb is used in its past participle form.
5. Next, we designate the doer by using the phrase “by.”
6. Next, we change the Active Voice sentence’s subject to the Passive Voice sentence’s object.
7. Next, we add any more words to the active voice sentence, if any.
8. Lastly, we employ the interrogation symbol “?”

Here’s a quick example:

Active: Have you given the pizzeria a call?

Passive: Have you made a call to the pizzeria?

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Future Perfect Passive Voice Exercises

Here are a few exercises which will help you test your knowledge.

Exercise 1

Convert the following sentences into future perfect passive voice:

  1. I will have written a letter.
  2. He will have cooked food.
  3. We will have met Jamie.
  4. They will have left Japan.
  5. It will have stopped raining.

Exercise 2

Rewrite the following sentences into passive voice:

  1. Her friend will install it.
  2. They will not ask him.
  3. Will the company employ a new worker?
  4. Will the plumber repair the tap?
  5. Our boss will sign the contract.

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FAQs

What is an example of a future passive voice?

The future passive voice means when something is done by someone in future.
Example: The horses will be taken to the stable.

What is a future perfect passive voice?

Here is the formula for your reference: Subject + Helping verbs (will + have) + Past participle form of the main verb + the rest of the sentence.

Why do we use future simple passive?

We, generally use the passive when the focus is on the action and not on the WHO or WHAT is acting.

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