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0I cannot find an appropriate answer among the given choices.02br
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00When "his arrival" is told as a future event, the sentence would be:02br
00 "By the time he arrives, we will have a meeting."02br
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00When "his arrival" is told as a past event, the sentence would be:02br
00 "By the time he arrived, we had had a

0Hi guys,02br
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01b01font00By the time he ----, we ---- a meeting.02font02b02br
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01font00A) will arrive / will have 02font02br
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01font00B) arrives / have had02font02br
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0 I feel you commonly use the adverbial "by the time ..." in a combination with 01i00an accomplished event02i00. But I might be wrong as usual.02br
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00paco02br
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00[PS] Googlily "by the time someone arrived, we were having ..." hits 3 pages whereas "by the time someone arrived, we had ..." hits 900 pages. 0-

0 I agree with Clive here. D seems perfectly fine to me, as it is expressing that a certain action had been completed ("arrived") whilst another one was in process ("having a meeting").02br
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00Paco, the example you gave of an accomplished event appears feasible, but it would imply that the meeting had already taken place when he arrived, whereas D indicates that the meeti

0 I'm a mere learner but I'd like to express my disagreement. 02br
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00As far as I learned, the time adverbial "by the time ..." is to be used with a main clause that states an accomplished event. You are free to use it in a combination with a continuous event stating main clause because English is your mother tongue and you have rights to change the grammar of the languag

0paco, it is me who asked the question, which is a quest for possibilities in English. It seems as if there is more to what we have been taught and what grammars wrote. As far af they are used, I don't think frequency is of much concern. 02br
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00Which ones are acceptable? (as time conjunctions) I know many of them are clearly wrong but there may be things that I don't kno

0 Hello Diamond02br
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00Please choose all what you think are right. They are too many for me.02br
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00paco 0-

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01cite10Paco200412cite10I'm a mere learner but I'd like to express my disagreement. 12br
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10As far as I learned, the time adverbial "by the time ..." is to be used with a main clause that states an accomplished event. You are free to use it in a combination with a continuous event stating main clause because Engli

1b00By the time he ----, we ---- a meeting.02b02br
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00A) will arrive / will have 02br
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00B) arrives / have had02br
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00C) was arriving / have 02br
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00D) arrives / are having02br
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00E) has arrived / would be having 02br

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11b10By the time he ----, we ---- a meeting.12b12br
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10A) will arrive / will have 12br
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10B) arrives / have had12br
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10C) was arriving / have 12br
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10D) a