FUTURE PERFECT TENSE
What if you want to express one future action before another future action? For
example:
I will have visited my grandchildren a number of times before they stay with
me in the summer.The words will have show that the visiting will be completed before the staying
occurs in the summer. In other words, a future action—visiting—will be completed
before another future action, staying, happens.
Written Practice 3-3
Correct the verb tense errors in the following sentences. The fi rst one is done for
you.
- I will have planted a hundred bulbs before I will have considered stopping.
... before I consider stopping - I will have fl own one million miles before I will have retired.
- I will fl y one million miles before I will have retired.
- By the time you will have arrived, I will bake the cake.
- The exterior house painting will have been done before you will have
moved in.
SIMULTANEOUS ACTIONS
Consider one more: the use of time in a sentence that expresses simultaneous
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