Exercises

Type your answer, then press "Check". Put the verbs in brackets into the future perfect. When there are more verbs to be filled in, type a comma in between the different verb forms. Whenever you have to fill in an interrogative do not forget to type the subject in the sentence.

1. I hope they (repair) this road by the time we come back next summer.

   
   
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2. By the end of next week my wife (do) her spring cleaning and we'll all be able to relax again.

   
   
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3. Yes, I make jam every week. I (make) about 200 kilos by the end of the summer.

   
   
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4. In two months' time he (finish) his preliminary training and will be starting work.

   
   
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5. He spends all his spare time planting trees. He says that by the end of next year he (plant) 2,000.

   
   
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6. I'll be back again at the end of next month. I hope I (pass) my driving test by then.

   
   
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7. Come back in an hour. I (do) my packing by then and we'll be able to have a talk.

   
   
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8. When he reaches Land's End he (walk) 1,500 miles.

   
   
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9. He's only 35 but he's started losing his hair already. He (lose) it all by the time he's 50.

   
   
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10. His father left him £400,000, but he lives so extravagantly that he (spend) it all before he's 30.

    
    
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11. By the end of next year I (work) for him for 45 years.

    
    
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12. Everywhere you go in central London you see block of flats being pulled down and huge hotels being erected. In ten years' time all the private residents (be driven) out and there'll be nothing but one vast hotel after another.

    
    
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13. Our committee is trying to raise money to buy a new life boat. By the end of the year we (send) out 5,000 letters asking for contributions.

    
    
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14. By the end of my tour I (give) exactly the same lecture 53 times.

    
    
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15. A hundred people have died of starvation already. By the end of the week Two hundred (die). When are you going to send help?

    
    
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16. Since he began driving, Tom has driven an average of 5,000 miles a year, and had an average of 2 1/5 accidents a year. So by the time he's 60 he (drive) 200,000 miles and had 50 accidents. Let's try to persuade him to go back cycling.

    
    
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17. Did you say you wanted to help picking apples?
    I could come on 1 October.
    We (pick) them all by then. But come all the same.

    
    
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18. Apparently Venice is slowly sinking into the sea. Scientists are trying to save it but by the time they've found the answer the city (probably sink).

    
    
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