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When is it o.k. to drop the auxiliaries in composite tenses and when do you have to keep them ? Is there a rule or is this purely ad hoc ?
For example in the sentence : "By the time you get back, I will have picked up the trash and [will have] finished the job." Does it work the same for all composite tenses ?
use of auxiliaries 
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