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can we use "future perfect con"

"Tom will have been being a good soccer player next season."

or "Tom will have been being good at soccer next season."

what's difference

"Tom will be a good soccer player next season."

or "Tom will be good at soccer next season."

actually i would like to know deeply details in each tense.

please advice

Clive · Accepted Answer

Hi,

can we use "future perfect con"

"Tom will have been being a good soccer player next season."

or "Tom will have been being good at soccer next season."

First. let's look at simpler examples.

Tom will be a good soccer player next season.

Tom will be good at soccer next season.

There's not a lot of difference in these two sentences.

Now, let's look at your two different tenses above. But the verb 'be' can be a little hard to discuss, so let's look at a simpler, more concrete verb like 'cook'.

Tom will have been cooking dinner next week. You could say this, but only if you had a very, very odd and unusual context. You'd more typically say something like

'Tom will have been cooking dinner for two hours when I call him at 6pm tomorrow.' This means that he started at 4pm and will finish after 6pm. It refers to an action in progress. It means that at 6pm he will 'have the result of cooking for two hours', and he will continue to cook after 6pm.

what's difference I already discussed the following two sentences in my comments above. There's really no difference.

"Tom will be a good soccer player next season."

or "Tom will be good at soccer next season."

The verb 'be' will give you the same kind of meaning in your sentences, but it hurts my brain more than the verb 'cook'.

If you still have questions about all this, please post again.

Best wishes, Clive

Cool Breeze · Answer

Tommyensr"Tom will have been being a good soccer player next season."

Be is normally not used in the continuous future perfect tense. Clive has given you a good answer.

CB

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