1. Future and Conditional Perfect

2. The FUTURE PERFECT TENSE is the past of the future, in a manner of speaking. It shows something that will be complete at some point in the future. By the year 2050 we will have found a way to make a car run on water. 2050 is the future. Some time before then, a car running on water will be a reality. In 2050, our future, that invention will be a past (completed) act.

3. The conditional perfect is a little trickier. It refers to a point in the past when something would have been completed. There’s always an implied “if clause.” I would have eaten all the cake (if I could have). Although the time isn’t specified, it is always some point in the past.

4. You should be able to predict these two tenses. Perfect means that you’ll have,  in English, “has,” “have,” or “had”  in Spanish, a form of “haber”  In BOTH, a past participle (hablado) Future means that you’ll have,  in English, the word “will”  in Spanish, the future of “haber” Conditional means that you’ll have,  in English, the word “would”  in Spanish, the conditional of “haber”

5. Following are the future perfect forms of “haber”: habréhabremos habráshabréis habráhabrán Put these helping verbs with a past participle to form the future perfect: future perfect ↓ ↓ habré hablado – I will have spoken

6. Click here to go to a brief practice exercise.here

7. Following are the conditional perfect forms of “haber”: habríahabríamos habríashabríais habríahabrían Put these helping verbs with a past participle to form the future perfect: conditional perfect ↓ ↓ habría hablado – I would have spoken

8. Click here to go to a brief practice exercise.here Click here to go to another practice exercise.here Click here to go to your FUTURE PERFECT homework.here Click here to go to your CONDITIONAL PERFECT homework.here