Future tense

That;s a pretty unnatural sentence, Why have you used a so-called future perfect (not past perfect) in the main clause? In which sense of the word are you using 'while'?

Cup cakeI'd like to know why we use the simple present for the latter event in the following example:' The team will have decided on a date to finish the project, while the manager organises a room to present it.'

"In general, we do not use complex verb forms more often than necessary. If we say several things about the same situation (and if we connect these

Hmmm, I can't find the lesson from where I got this. I have SO many photocopies of lessons that I could run a camp fire for a week!

Here is another example:

' She should've apologised to Crystal by the time she leaves.'

I've created this sentence, which sounds OK, albeit I would probably say it a different way. I wrote the sentence based on the formula I found in a lesso

Oh yes - while.

I'm using it to show a simultaneous event. This is why it's slightly confusing.

My guess is that the team will finish their job, but the manager's job doesn't require a deadline.

...maybe?

Cup cakeHow would you write this?

I'd probably write "She should apologise to Crystal before she leaves". However, let's stick with your sentence:

Cup cake' She should've apologised to Crystal by the time she leaves.'

Without more context, we don't actually know what time is referred to until we a present tense get to the fi

Cup cake' She should've apologised to Crystal by the time she leaves.'

I think that sentence is incoherent. Why do you want to connect an unfulfilled action in the past with the future activity?

I'd put it like that: ' She should've apologised to Crystal by the time she left.'

Thanks Anonymous.

' She should've apologised to Crystal by the time she left.'

This changes the meaning though. It suggests a past activity. The point of my sentence is to show that the activity hasn't happened yet, and that an apology 'needs' to happen, but there's no guarantee that it will.

She should've apologised to Crystal by the time she left. (The actions are complete, but we don't know if the apology was given or not.)

She should've apologised to Crystal by the time she leaves. (Awkward. She has not left yet. They are together now. We don't know if the apology has been given, but it might have.)

She should apologise to Crystal by the time she leaves. (All acti

Thanks AS.

Yes, I can see all your examples as working. I personally prefer the future continuous, or simple future. T

Cup cake'm working on future tenses today.

It is perhaps worth pointing out that few grammarians today accept that English has a future 'tense'. It has different ways of expressing the future, most involving a present-tense verb.You can read more about this