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Loojka Posted 10 years ago
Grammar
Future perfect
Hi, everyone!
There's this sentence that's giving me a hard time. It says:
"Josh Freese is a very successful session drummer based in Los Angeles. You probably won't have heard of him but he's played with some very successful bands."
Why is future perfect used here? Shouldn't it be "You probably haven't heard of him..."? Isn't future perfect supposed to be used for actions finished by a certain time in the future?
Thank you very much for your help.
There's this sentence that's giving me a hard time. It says:
"Josh Freese is a very successful session drummer based in Los Angeles. You probably won't have heard of him but he's played with some very successful bands."
Why is future perfect used here? Shouldn't it be "You probably haven't heard of him..."? Isn't future perfect supposed to be used for actions finished by a certain time in the future?
Thank you very much for your help.
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It comes to me as a hypothetical reply in the future -
"If I were to ask you, you would say [i.e. future] that you have not heard of him."
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"If I were to ask you, you would say [i.e. future] that you have not heard of him."
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