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Tomeng Posted 8 years ago
Grammar

Future perfect continuous or future perfect?

Hello,

I come across a sentence and I'm not sure whether it employs the correct tense or not. It's written with future perfect continuous tense; however, we should use future perfect tense due to the fact that the meaning fails and there isn't any clue about the duration of the event.

Here's the sentence:

"By this time next Tuesday Tom will have been talking with his friends."

Isn't it wrong to use future perfect continuous or is it possible to use?


Thanks,

  

Top answer

" This sentence is possible but unusual. It needs a certain context. One scenario in which it might be used is when there is some information for Tom to discover, which he will find out by talking to his friends, and which will have some relevance next Tuesday.

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  • " This sentence is possible but unusual.
  • It needs a certain context.
  • One scenario in which it might be used is when there is some information for Tom to discover, which he will find out by talking to his friends, and which will have some relevance next Tuesday.
  • Some people would prefer to put a comma after "Tuesday".
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tomeng"By this time next Tuesday Tom will have been talking with his friends."

This sentence is possible but unusual. It needs a certain context. One scenario in which it might be used is when there is some information for Tom to discover, which he will find out by talking to his friends, and which will have some relevance next Tuesday.

Some people w

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