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Future perfect/simple future/present perfect
Please consider the following:
They will report to me what they will have known/will know/have known. Which one is right if the context is they will report to me after they know it
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What time are we talking about in “She’ll have bought a new mobile/cellphone yesterday”?
I encountered this sentence when I was learning another language. I have never used such a sentence in English nor seen one, but it seems it exists.
What idea does this sentence trying to convey? ...
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Similarity between future perfect and future perfect continuous
I had an assignment given before some days. I tried to do it and got some answers right, but it was not satisfactory. Can you tell me the similarity between future perfect and future perfect ...
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weird airport customs questions I had
I was going through the US border control in an airport a couple days ago and the customs officer asked me a question that was kind unexpected. I don't remember the question exactly but it definitely ...
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"Should have been" in Future II and Past
I'm trying to express that, at some point in the future, something should have been removed from a collection after a certain event happened.
The exact sentence I used for this is (it's about caching ...
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Tenses in sentences with more than two verbs
I´ve spent a fortune on swimming lessons. Next month I will have been training for three years and I don´t think I _______________(can) dive successfully when I go to Mexico this summer.
If I thought ...
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Future perfect for predictions?
I have seen a discussion regarding Harry Potter quotes, such as:
Voldemort will not have made it easy to discover his hiding place.
Which is said in a situation when Voldemort had hidden the thing ...
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What tense uses the future perfect "will have + past participle" and then adds a present participle?
The sentence
I don't think the leaves will have started changing colors yet.
threw me for a loop today. I've been searching for hours, and I can't find anything close to a definitive answer on ...
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What tense is "Having had..."? [closed]
This statement is from many 12-step recovery programs (primarily Alcoholics Anonymous):
"Step 12. Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to ...
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What tense is this is "will have had to have seen"? [duplicate]
I was making a table of the sentence "You must/have to see it." ("You see it.") in different tenses and moods in German with the English equivalent.
I ended up writing these three sentences down (in ...
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Simple Future vs Future Perfect [closed]
Mother: Have you completed your homework?
1. Son: I will complete my homework before 6 P.M.
2. Son: I will have completed my homework before 6 P.M.
Are both sentences 1 and 2 correct?
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May I have some examples of “future perfect continuous” from fiction or literature, with references? [closed]
Question says it all and again it should be from literature or fiction.
I was told that the future perfect continuous does not exist. So I am looking for examples from “real published and acclaimed ...
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Can we use should /would and /could in Future perfect tense
I would have finished my home work by evening .
He should have been more careful.
Can these be used as future perfect tense ?
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Future perfect or Future perfect continuous in the following sentence?
I am not sure why this sentence is incorrect from tense's perspective.
It is certain that the construction of the road will be completed by the winter of 2014.
Also, according to my book its ...
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Future Perfect tense
I cannot understand the usage of this tense. For example, what does "I will have done this task" mean? Does it mean the effects of this task will be remaining in the future?
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Why no Future Perfect in "At the end of the year there will be an exam on everything you've studied"?
At the end of the year there will be an exam on everything you've studied.
I'm just wondering why not use the Future Perfect tense here, as in:
At the end of the year there will be an exam on ...
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“will have seen yesterday”
This is a part of a sentence:
As many of you will have seen yesterday, . . .
What does it mean? The words will and yesterday seem to be in contradiction.
Is that a correct sentence?
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"Will have" vs. "Would have"
By the end of the year, I would have attended this school for five years.
Of course, the "most" correct way of writing this would be:
By the end of the year, I will have attended this school for ...
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Verb Forms and Their Usage
What is meant by "present perfect", "past perfect", and "future perfect" verbs? How can I identify them or know which is which?
Merlene