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Everlastinghope Posted 16 years ago
Grammar

The future perfect

According to Michael Swan's Grammar Book,we use the future perfect when talking about time and with " by,within,next or this like this year...etc"

Examples:

1-I'll have been twenty five this january

2-I'll have been finished my studies by october

Is it possible to talk about place instead of time ?

I'm driving and I'm talking to my friend telling him I'll have done 30 km in certain place.

In other words,I'm driving and I'm talking about how many kilometers I'll have done reaching a certain place.
  

Top answer

Yes. I will have driven 30 km when I reach Phoenix. My version is something of a compromise, because " when I reach" is an expression of time.

— Avangi

  • Yes.
  • I will have driven 30 km when I reach Phoenix.
  • My version is something of a compromise, because " when I reach" is an expression of time.
  • I'll have done 30 km in Phoenix doesn't quite work.
  • I'll have done/driven 30 km at the state line .
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Yes.
I will have driven 30 km when I reach Phoenix.

My version is something of a compromise, because "when I reach" is an expression of time.

I'll have done 30 km in Phoenix doesn't quite work.

I'll have done/driven 30 km at the state line. Same problem. With the right context, people would understand what you mean. But it's not some
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Avangi
I'll have done 30 km in Phoenix doesn't quite work.


well,here you said it doesn't quiet work,so why it is perhaps correct in this sentence :


Avangi
Perhaps,

Where are you? (reply) Amarillo.

Have you driven 300 miles? (reply) No, I'll have dri
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everlastinghope Is it because we have a conversation-like ?
Yes. It sneaks the time factor into the context.

We constantly have to deal with the problem of "no-context" sentences on the site.
A given sentence may be "unacceptable" in isolation, but when the sentence is "set up" by prior context, we take some of the words differently, and the
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I can't think of any instances in the past year in which I had used future perfect. I am sure it has its places in the language but how useful ? Well, to me, it's like the stuffs we keep piling on the garage shelves, which we don't remember having. If we don't touch them for 3 years, we can do without them.
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Still, if you have that disease, it's comforting to know they're there. Emotion: nodding
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AvangiStill, if you have that disease, it's comforting to know they're there.
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Oh dear. Emotion: embarrassed

Books have been written about the mentally deranged people who collect and save things like pack rats.
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everlastinghope well,here you said it doesn't quiet work,so why it is perhaps correct in this sentence :
I tried to think of an example completely free of time references, but couldn't. (when, etc.)

But I was just talking with my son about my posts, and thought this might be an example:

With 300 more posts, I will have reached 10,
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AvangiOh dear.

Books have been written about the mentally deran
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dimsumexpress (like the Christmas tie and the many can foods I bought)
Better hang onto the canned foods. These are uncertain times!
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