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0 This is used to draw reader's attention to the result (completeness) rather than to the action itself.02br
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00Ex.: I'll help you only after I have finished my own work. 0-

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01cite10Clyde12cite10Hello12br
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10there is the sentence " They will need something bigger when they've had a baby." I'd like to ask why "they've had a baby" I would say "when they have a baby" so why "have had"???12br
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10The perfect tens

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00«They will need something bigger when they have a baby» is grammatically incorrect and not just sounding not as good as with Present Perfect?02br
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00I don't think it's incorrect. 0-

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10there is the sentence " They will need something bigger when they've had a baby." I'd like to ask why "they've had a baby" I would say "when they have a baby" so why "have had"???12br
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20there is the sentence " They will need something bigger when they've had a baby." I'd like to ask why "they've had a baby" I would say "when they have a baby" so why "have had"???22br
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0Hi Incho02br
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00I do not understand why you say sentence 1 is not the same in meaning as sentence 2.02br
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001. They will need something bigger when 01b00they've had02b00 a baby.02br
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002. They will need something bigger when 01b00they02b00 01b00have had02b00

0 The perfect tense suggests a completed state, action (here, the future after the birth).02br
00That they have a child is a state that will not come to an end but start at the time the child has born. 0-

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00I'd like to ask why "they've had a baby" I would say "when they have a baby" so why "have had"???12blockquote

10No particular reason. We are sometimes indifferent to the use of the present or present perfect in a time clause. The present 01i00when they have a baby02i00 projects from now into the future to the mom

0there is the sentence " They will need something bigger when they've had a baby." I'd like to ask why "they've had a baby" I would say "when they have a baby" so why "have had"???02br
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00I think there's some confusion here because "to have a baby" can refer either to the event (the birth of the baby) or the ongoing condition (being parents of a baby). In other words, af