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Anonymous Posted 10 years ago
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Future perfect continous?
Hello!
I am learning the future perfect continous and I have some questions.
1. How often is it used in spoken language?
2. If it is used rarely, then does it sound strange when it is used in spoken language?
3. Can we change the part in bold of the sentence below as:
Anne will be in a bad mood at the party this evening because she’ll have been doing housework - original form
Anne will be in a bad mood at the party this evening because did housework - the changed form
I am learning the future perfect continous and I have some questions.
1. How often is it used in spoken language?
2. If it is used rarely, then does it sound strange when it is used in spoken language?
3. Can we change the part in bold of the sentence below as:
Anne will be in a bad mood at the party this evening because she’ll have been doing housework - original form
Anne will be in a bad mood at the party this evening because did housework - the changed form
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Hi I think you are right to raise that question. My feeling is that we don't often use that tense in everyday speech. When we do use it, it tends to be in sentences that we've thought out before saying or writing them - If you don't get here in the next ten minutes, I'll have been reading a very boring newspaper for more than an hour - By the time I retire, I'll have been a qualified accountant for thirty years We do use it to sympathise with another person: - I'm exhausted.
- Hi I think you are right to raise that question.
- My feeling is that we don't often use that tense in everyday speech.
- When we do use it, it tends to be in sentences that we've thought out before saying or writing them - If you don't get here in the next ten minutes, I'll have been reading a very boring newspaper for more than an hour - By the time I retire, I'll have been a qualified accountant for thirty years We do use it to sympathise with another person: - I'm exhausted.
- The baby's not sleeping well at all - You'll have been up most of the night then?
- With regard to your sentence, the future perfect does work there, but you could use a more straightforward past tense: - Anne will be in a bad mood at the party this evening because she's been doing housework all day Dave
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Hi
I think you are right to raise that question. My feeling is that we don't often use that tense in everyday speech. When we do use it, it tends to be in sentences that we've thought out before saying or writing them
- If you don't get here in the next ten minutes, I'll have been reading a very boring newspaper for more than an hour
- By the time I retire, I'll have b
I think you are right to raise that question. My feeling is that we don't often use that tense in everyday speech. When we do use it, it tends to be in sentences that we've thought out before saying or writing them
- If you don't get here in the next ten minutes, I'll have been reading a very boring newspaper for more than an hour
- By the time I retire, I'll have b
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