Drag the correct verb phrases to complete the college student's slightly panicked realization about their study schedule.
By 3:00 AM tonight, I will have been staring at this same essay prompt for six hours. Worse still, my roommate will have been playing that terrible video game for even longer!
By 3:00 AM tonight, I will have been staring at this same essay prompt for six hours.
The combination of a future deadline ("By 3:00 AM tonight") and a length of time ("for six hours") requires the future perfect continuous tense to emphasize the ongoing, continuous nature of the staring.
Worse still, my roommate will have been playing that terrible video game for even longer!
This sentence shares the same future timeline ("By 3:00 AM") and emphasizes the duration ("for even longer"). Therefore, the future perfect continuous is the only grammatically correct option.