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Gauravmunjal13 Posted 12 years ago
Grammar

"by the time you will come for dinner we would have finished everything that would be on table" Is this grammatically correct?
  

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The tenses don't quite work. " (" . .

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The tenses don't quite work.

It would be natural to say,
"By the time you come for dinner we will have finished everything [that would be / that would have been] on the table."

(" . . . . everything on the table." is best.)
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Thanks Avangi!!
there is a sentence from 'Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets'. Context:
Muggle-borns are being attacked and Harry and his friends believe that Malfoy could be behind these attacks. They are preparing a potion which will enable them to turn into Malfoy's friends so that they would be able to ask Malfoy if he is behind the attacks. Now as follows: 'How long wi
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About a month. (reply) Malfoy could have attacked half the Muggle-borns in the school by then!

By the time you come for dinner we could have finished everything on the table.

The reason this second one doesn't sound quite right (to me) is that the purpose of getting the people to arri
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gauravmunjal13by the time you will come
No. Emotion: shake

These are the normal sequences of tens
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gauravmunjal13'How long will it take to make, anyway? Harry asked Hermoine. 'About a month.' Hermione answered. 'Malfoy could have attacked half the Muggle-borns in the school by then!' Ron interjected.
In my opinion this is not a very common use of a verb phrase with 'could have'.

Malfoy could have attacked half the Muggle-borns in the school by
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