'will have' and 'would have'

Learn about the modal verbs will

 have and would have and

 do the exercises to practise using them.

Level: intermediate

We use will have when we are

 looking back from a poin

t in time in the future:

By the end of the decade, 

scientists will have discovered 

a cure for influenza.
I will phone at six o'clock. 

He will have got home by then.

or looking back from the present:

Look at the time. The match

 will have started.It's half past five.

 Dad will have finished work by now.

We use would have as the

 past tense form of will have:

I phoned at six o'clock. 

I knew he would have

 got home by then.
It was half past five. Dad 

would have finished work.

We also use would have

 in conditionals to talk about something

 that did not happen in the past:

If it had been a little warmer,

 we would have gone

 for a swim.
(but it was cold so 

we didn't go for a swim)