Verb Tenses, Part 3: Perfect Tenses, the quiz, is now published and ready for you to try out. Here's a sample question:
Question 1
Name the verb tense seen in the following sentence:
Next year, we will have been camping in these bear-infested woods for five years straight.
Next year, we will have been camping in these bear-infested woods for five years straight.
REASONING: The relevant verb is will have been camping (from to camp). You know that perfect tenses have some form of the auxiliary have, and you can see that have is in the future tense—will have. And progressives have some form of be + verbs with -ing. So this is the future-perfect progressive. But wait—the progressive is also called the continuous.
1st possible answer: No. The simple-future progressive is will be camping.
2nd possible answer: Yes. As reasoned above.
3rd possible answer: No. That would be would have been camping.
4th possible answer: Yes. Because progressive and continuous are two names for the same aspect.
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