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Chloee Posted 15 years ago
Grammar
Future Tenses
''By the time we will have finished everybody will have eaten and drunk as much as they can.''
In the sentence above there is a mistake - incorrect tense I believe: we will have finished.
What would be correct and why? Present simple maybe?
Thanks in advance.
In the sentence above there is a mistake - incorrect tense I believe: we will have finished.
What would be correct and why? Present simple maybe?
Thanks in advance.
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'' In the sentence above there is a mistake - incorrect tense I believe: we will have finished. What would be correct and why? Present simple maybe?
- '' In the sentence above there is a mistake - incorrect tense I believe: we will have finished.
- What would be correct and why?
- Present simple maybe?
- You are right: Clause of time and condition takes present indefinite (present simple) - It should be- By the time we finish everybody will have eaten and drunk as much as they can.
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''By the time we will have finished everybody will have eaten and drunk as much as they can.''
In the sentence above there is a mistake - incorrect tense I believe: we will have finished.
What would be correct and why? Present simple maybe?
You are right:
Clause of time and condition
In the sentence above there is a mistake - incorrect tense I believe: we will have finished.
What would be correct and why? Present simple maybe?
You are right:
Clause of time and condition
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