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Anonymous Posted 10 years ago
Grammar

Future Perfect

"Young people can be very suspicious of attempts to move their opinion when it comes to commercial advertising, so Mr Obama's endorsement will have to carefully crafted to avoid seeming like a sales pitch." (BBC website.)

Is "will have to carefully crafted" expressed in the Future Perfect tense in the above?
  

Top answer

No. It's will + have to. 'Be' is missing after have to.

— Fivejedjon

  • No.
  • It's will + have to.
  • 'Be' is missing after have to.
  • Some would call this a future quasi-modal passive construction.
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No. It's will + have to. 'Be' is missing after have to. Some would call this a future quasi-modal passive construction.
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fivejedjonNo. It's will + have to. 'Be' is missing after have to
Thank you for the detailed explanation.
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And here is a quasi-modal picture. Emotion: wink
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If I want to say "...will have to be carefully crafted..."
Does it have the same meaning as "...will have to carefully crafted..."?
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will have to carefully crafted This is incorrect English. It has no meaning.
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Amir Oghlowwill have to carefully crafted
Nonsense. You don't want to say that.

CJ
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