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B The same people will be thirty-five years
old in a month's time. What will they have
been doing by the end of next month?
Using the prompts below, make sen-
tences, as in the example.
1 Alec / travel / ten years
...By the end of next month, Alec will have been
travelling for ten years.
Mark/run/ own business / eight years
3 Moira / star in films / six years
4 Kate / design clothes / four years
5 Jack/build houses/ ten years
6 Ted / paint / fifteen years



Answer :

Certainly! To construct sentences about what each person will have been doing by the end of next month and for how long, you use the future perfect continuous tense. This tense is used to indicate that an action will continue up until a point in the future. Here's how we can construct the sentences for each prompt:

1. For Alec, we have the basic sentence from the example:
- By the end of next month, Alec will have been travelling for ten years.

2. For Mark, we're told that he runs his own business and he will have been doing that for eight years:
- By the end of next month, Mark will have been running his own business for eight years.

3. For Moira, we know that she stars in films and by the end of next month, she will have been doing this for six years:
- By the end of next month, Moira will have been starring in films for six years.

4. For Kate, the prompt indicates that she designs clothes and she will have been doing it for four years:
- By the end of next month, Kate will have been designing clothes for four years.

5. Jack builds houses, and by the end of next month, the duration will be ten years:
- By the end of next month, Jack will have been building houses for ten years.

6. Finally, Ted is a painter and by the end of the next month, he will have been painting for fifteen years:
- By the end of next month, Ted will have been painting for fifteen years.

These sentences describe what each person has been doing and for how long, using the future perfect continuous tense to project their continuous actions into the future.