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Tomeng Posted 8 years ago
Grammar

Future perfect tense possible?

Hello,

For the underlined phrase of the following sentence is future perfect tense also possible?

"Angela will understand why he has left her in time." (will have understood ???)


Thanks,

  

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For me, "will have understood" is not a very good fit with "in time".

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  • For me, "will have understood" is not a very good fit with "in time".
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For me, "will have understood" is not a very good fit with "in time".

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tomeng"In time, Angela will understand why he has left her in time."

It means "at some (unknown) time in the future" Angela will have this understanding.
The adverbial (in time) goes with "will understand", not "has left", so it must be positioned at the beginning.

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