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Anonymous Posted 16 years ago
Grammar
Future Simple or Future Perfect
Can we say I will buy a car by Saturday? Or should we say I will have bought a car by Saturday? What's the difference then? Thank you very much.
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Both are fine; they simply represent different psychological perspectives on the part of the speaker: in the first, the speaker is viewing from now, and in the second the speaker is viewing from the future.
- Both are fine; they simply represent different psychological perspectives on the part of the speaker: in the first, the speaker is viewing from now, and in the second the speaker is viewing from the future.
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Both are fine; they simply represent different psychological perspectives on the part of the speaker: in the first, the speaker is viewing from now, and in the second the speaker is viewing from the future.
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