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Anonymous Posted 10 years ago
Grammar

Future

I will have been sitting in a plane for over ten hours before I arrive to New York.

I will have sit in a plane for over ten hours before I arrive to New York.

What's the difference?
  

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I will have been sitting in a plane for over ten hours before I arrive in New York. I will have sat in a plane for over ten hours before I arrive in New York. The only real difference is that #1 stresses more that it is a long, long time.

— Clive

  • I will have been sitting in a plane for over ten hours before I arrive in New York.
  • I will have sat in a plane for over ten hours before I arrive in New York.
  • The only real difference is that #1 stresses more that it is a long, long time.
  • It would be better to say 'when' instead of 'before', because the focus is on your arrival in New York..
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I will have been sitting in a plane for over ten hours before I arrive in New York.

I will have sat in a plane for over ten hours before I arrive in New York.

The only real difference is that #1 stresses more that it is a long, long time.

It would be better to say 'when' instead of 'before', because the focus is on your arrival in New York..
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In which tense is better to use "when" instead of before?
Future perfect or future perfect progressive?
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Do you mean in future perfect progressive?
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I will have been sitting in a plane for over ten hours when I arrive in New York.

I will have sat in a plane for over ten hours when I arrive in New York.
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