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Joseph A Posted 8 years ago
Grammar

Present perfect

Hello everyone,

Why has "present perefect" been used after "until"? Is it possible? What does it mean, please?

- I say that we wait until they've found the treasure, and they've helped us to get it on board.

Regards

JA

  

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Joseph A Hello everyone, Why has "present perefect" been used after "until"? Is it possible? What does it mean, please?

— CalifJim

  • Joseph A Hello everyone, Why has "present perefect" been used after "until"?
  • Is it possible?
  • What does it mean, please?
  • - I say that we wait until they've found the treasure, and they've helped us to get it on board.
  • Regards JA This construction is used to emphasize that they're going to wait until after the others have found the treasure and already got it on board.
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Joseph A

Hello everyone,

Why has "present perefect" been used after "until"? Is it possible? What does it mean, please?

- I say that we wait until they've found the treasure, and they've helped us to get it on board.

Regards

JA

This construction is used to emphasize that they're going to wait until after the other

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"they've found the treasure" is looking back from a future point in time. If you like, we must wait until the time when "they've found the treasure" is a true statement. In a way, it is a kind of future perfect ("they will have found the treasure"), but the "will" is suppressed because we do not (normally) use "will" with "until" and certain other future time expressions.

(Cross-posted.)

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