Future Progressive

_Singular_ _Plural_

1st. I shall be seeing. We shall be seeing.

2d. You will be seeing. You will be seeing.

3d. He will be seeing. They will be seeing.

+137.+ The perfect time forms also have a progressive form. There is a

difference of meaning in the _present perfect_ and its progressive form.

You say for instance, _I have tried all my life to be free_. You mean

you have tried until the present time and the inference is that now you

have ceased to try. But, if you say, _I have been trying all my life to

be free_, we understand that you have tried and are _still_ trying.

+138.+ +So we have the present perfect progressive which describes an

action which progressed in the past and continued up to the present

time. It is formed by using the present perfect form of the verb _be_

and the present participle.+

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