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Alc24 Posted 16 years ago
Grammar

The "future perfect" with "past simple"

Can you tell me how to say this? I read it on a site and I thought it was weird.

1 Your Product License will have been emailed to you when you purchased it.

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Hi, Can you tell me how to say this? I read it on a site and I thought it was weird. 1 Your Product License will have been emailed to you when you purchased it.

  • Hi, Can you tell me how to say this?
  • I read it on a site and I thought it was weird.
  • 1 Your Product License will have been emailed to you when you purchased it.
  • It's valid as written.
  • Future perfect passive (it will have been mailed) is used here to show that the past action is not known for certain, but is a matter of logical speculation or possibility.
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Hi,

Can you tell me how to say this? I read it on a site and I thought it was weird.

1 Your Product License will have been emailed to you when you purchased it.



It's valid as written.

Future perfect passive (it will have been mailed) is used here to show that the past action is not known for certain, but is a matter of logical speculation or possibil
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Thank you Clive,

how about

The product license would have been/was mailed to you when you bought it.

Thank you
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Hi,

The product license would have been/was mailed to you when you bought it.

The product license would have been mailed to you when you bought it.

Makes the statement of prediction/possibilty weaker than with 'will have been'.

The product license was mailed to you when you bought it.

States it as a fact.



Clive
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Thank you clive,

I had just one other question regarding the future perfect in the following sentence.

If you work 4 days and have one day off and work another 4 days, but this time, you might have to work that one day you have off.

1 If I also work tomorrow (my only day off) I'll have worked 8 days in a row by next sunday./I'll be working 8 days in a row./I'll work
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Hi,
I had just one other question regarding the future perfect in the following sentence.

If you work 4 days and have one day off and work another 4 days, but this time, you might have to work that one day you have off. This is not a correct sentence. I don't know what it means.
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Thank you clive,

just to make sure

1 If I also work tomorrow, which is my only day off, I'll have worked 8 days in a row by next Sunday./I'll be working 8 days in a row./I'll work 8 days in a row.

These 3 all work but the last 2 are different from the first in that it mentions "next Sunday"?
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Hi,
Just to make sure

1 If I also work tomorrow, which is my only day off, I'll have worked 8 days in a row by next Sunday./I'll be working 8 days in a row./I'll work 8 days in a row.

These 3 all work but the last 2 are different from the first in that

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