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Stenka25 Posted 17 years ago
Grammar
Future Perfect Tense
I know the typical example of future perfect sentence : "By next Christmas we'll have been here for eight years."
But when I came across the next paragraph with future perfect sentence, I cannot figure out how future perfect tense is used.
Sure, your team might lose, but then again, your team might win. Either way, your spectator experience will have been a fun one, and you will have avoided being merely a passive observer.
Can you tell me why this tense is used and the difference in meaning, when it is used as "will be a fun one, and you will avoid being merely a passive observer"?
Thanks in advance.
But when I came across the next paragraph with future perfect sentence, I cannot figure out how future perfect tense is used.
Sure, your team might lose, but then again, your team might win. Either way, your spectator experience will have been a fun one, and you will have avoided being merely a passive observer.
Can you tell me why this tense is used and the difference in meaning, when it is used as "will be a fun one, and you will avoid being merely a passive observer"?
Thanks in advance.
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" But when I came across the next paragraph with future perfect sentence, I cannot figure out how future perfect tense is used. Sure, your team might lose, but then again, your team might win. Either way , your spectator experience will have been (after game ends and the outcome is not important) a fun one, and you will have avoid ed (after game ends and the outcome is not important ) being merely a passive observer.
- " But when I came across the next paragraph with future perfect sentence, I cannot figure out how future perfect tense is used.
- Sure, your team might lose, but then again, your team might win.
- Either way , your spectator experience will have been (after game ends and the outcome is not important) a fun one, and you will have avoid ed (after game ends and the outcome is not important ) being merely a passive observer.
- Can you tell me why this tense is used and the difference in meaning, when it is used as " will be a fun one, and you will avoid being merely a passive observer"?
- Thanks in advance.
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Stenka25I know the typical example of future perfect sentence : "By next Christmas we'll have been here for eight years."
But when I came across the next paragraph with future perfect sentence, I cannot figure out how future perfect tense is used.
Sure, your team might lose, but then again, your team might win. Either way, your spectator experi
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Yes, either the future perfect or the simple future could be used in the sentence.
The use of the future perfect basically means that the speaker is looking at "your spectator experience" as a completed future activity. The speaker is in essence projecting himself to a point in time that is far enough in the future that he can look back at the your "past" spectator experience.
The use of the future perfect basically means that the speaker is looking at "your spectator experience" as a completed future activity. The speaker is in essence projecting himself to a point in time that is far enough in the future that he can look back at the your "past" spectator experience.
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