Questions tagged [future-perfect]
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"Will be living since" vs "Will have been living since" [duplicate]
Could you tell me which is correct, please? The following is just part of an exercise given at B2 British Council online course, so no context at all.
Joe will be living in Austria since April.
Joe ...
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future perfect or present perfect in a relative clause qualifying a noun contained in a time clause?
In the screenplay Harold and Maude, written by American author Colin Higgins, Harold stages a number of pretended suicides in an attempt to get strong emotional responses from his mother.
At a ...
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When should I use "Would", "Would have", "Will", and "Will have"?
I hope someone, once and for all, can clarify (with examples) the difference in usage of will vs. would vs. would have vs. will have.
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Will vs Would examples doubt
1. First Doubt:
I will have broken for lunch by 12:30.
This above sentence is from a grammer book, I think will should be would, for eg,
I would have broken for lunch by 12:30.
Am I wrong?
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Use of simple future perfect in the past [duplicate]
I've recently come across this sentence:
The young Nietzsche will have come across the term Kreuzspinne in his German edition of Emerson's The Conduct of Life.
I'm confused as to why the author used ...
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Future Perfect and Future Perfect Progressive for past assumptions
I would greatly appreciate your help with resolving one doubt I have and have been struggling to clear up.
It concerns the Future Perfect's and Future Perfect Progressive's more advanced usage - ...
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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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Is the passive constructed correctly: "The city will have been being locked down for 15 days from tomorrow"? [duplicate]
That is what I learned from grammar books.
"I go to the cinema tomorrow" means I am scheduled to go there at that fixed time
“I am going to the movies tomorrow” means I bought the ticket (...
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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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Why does Future Perfect Tense "sound" as though it didn't happen?
Consider these sentences:
They will walk before breakfast.
They will have walked before breakfast.
The first sentence expresses an action that will end before another action occurs in the ...
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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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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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Is the following sentence correct (future)?
I'm working on a presentation concerning COVID-19. I wrote this sentence and I deem the usage of future perfect should be adequate in this context, however I'm not entirely sure whether it's correct ...
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Use of Perfect Tenses, depending on the position of the phrase 'the first time'?
Today, I AM WEARING ice skates for the first time (ever).
Yesterday, I WORE ice skates for the first time (ever).
Tomorrow, I WILL WEAR ice skates for the first time (ever).
with the phrase 'for the ...
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Everyday alternatives to future perfect tenses [AE]
Every grammar book has a section about Future Perfect tenses, but as this article and the comments point out, I don't really hear this type of language constructions from Americans (including in an ...
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What is the meaning of the "will already have...." structure?
I am wondering about the meaning of a sentence which includes the "will already have...." structure?
The exact sentence is a part of IELTS practice test which says:
" ....in today’s tutorial we’re ...
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Future perfect progressive
When is the future perfect progressive used? I am trying to understand in which cases it should be used, but I cannot find any practice examples of sentences using that tense.
I will have been ...
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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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Tomorrow it will have been a year since we came..why incorrect?
A native speaker (US) told me that this is not right:
Tomorrow it will have been a year since we came.
I keep wondering why is that? Is it not expressing that by that time (tomorrow) it will have ...
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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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It will be done at that point in the future vs It will have been done at that point
I am struggling with understanding the difference here:
It will be done at that point in the future.
It will have been done at point in the future.
I know in theory what future perfect tense means ...
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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.
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Colloquial usage of past tense as future perfect
I have a Japanese friend who is learning English and recently posed me (a native speaker) a question that I am having trouble answering. The problem revolves around two statements:
I was able to ...
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Which future type (simple-vs-perfect) is correct for talking about an event that’s done?
Graduated, I started attending the degree course in Computer Science and Engineering in 2017, where I will graduate after two years with ⁹⁸⁄₁₁₀.
Is a simple will graduate ok here, or should I instead ...
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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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Usage of 'future perfect' versus 'future simple'
I have a question about the usage of the future perfect thingy: I know that it is used to talk about a completed action before a time in future, but is it wrong to use just plain future simple in this ...
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Using future perfect with an adverb of the past
the sentence states
Now some of you won't have been to Park Hill before , so let me
explain about our facility
would you please explain how the writer used future perfect with " before "
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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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Different between future prefect vs simple future + until
what's different in meaning between these two sentences?
The decorator will have painted the wall by Thursday.
The decorator will paint the wall until Thursday.
Does the second sentence mean the ...
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Futur perfect Tense
Is this sentence grammatical and idiomatic?
I will already have eaten when you get back.
To say that when .. ,let's say Mary, come back home, I will have already finished eating, I mean I will ...
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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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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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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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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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Future perfect tense by example [closed]
Are the following sentences correct? Please correct me, if they are wrong.
"I hope I'll have migrated immigrated to Australia when year 2018 will start."
"I hope I'll have migrated immigrated to ...
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Future Perfect with the preposition 'since'
I have a question regarding the future perfect tense and which prepositions go with it. Understandably, by, for, and in work very well with the future perfect.
By friday, I will have been working ...
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future perfect (will) for past events
She will not have minded much when Kenneth Clarke, a Tory grandee
who is a former home secretary as well as chancellor, was picked
up on a microphone this week calling her a “bloody difficult ...
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The use of "will" in assumptions
We can use will for both past and future assumptions. But how do we differentiate if it refers to past assurance or future possibility? For example:
You will know all about Rachel, of course.
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Use of 'must have' for obligation in the future
I have noticed there is a way of using 'must have' to denote finished obligation in the future - somewhat akin to the 'future perfect tense'. An example of what I mean:
" I must have finished ...
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Future Perfect with 2 events
I've been working through some future tenses exercises and I'm wondering about which of the following alternatives is correct:
By the time I'm 30, I will have got married and will have moved out to ...
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"Will be/would have been home tomorrow"
Which is correct?
He promised that he will be home tomorrow.
He promised that he would have been home tomorrow.
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Why is "violated" being used as future perfect with a person as the object?
On Aviation StackExchange, I've seen these:
I don't think you will be violated..
He was subsequently violated...
Pilot [...] may now be violated for it.
... pilots have been violated...
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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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Past Perfect with the word "within"
My question is about the use of the Past Perfect Simple in the following excerpt:
Back in 1995, when Bezos was shipping books from his garage, Pierre Omidyar, a software programmer, started coding a ...
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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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Active or passive voice - which to use?
In my software, if for some reason the installation fails, I want to display a message.
Which of these is correct?
Some problem occurred. The installation cannot proceed.
Some problem ...
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Make "will have been going to go" correct
Is there a situation or question where the phrase will have been going to go is the best, most natural, or clearest response (or included in said response)?
I'm asking this probably somewhat silly ...
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Combining future perfect tenses in a sentence
Which is correct to say?
On Valentines Day 2013 the iPhone will have been for sale exactly half as long as the iPod has been for sale.
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On Valentines Day 2013 the iPhone will have been for ...
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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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