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  1. 18-Jul-2004, 18:34 #1
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    Default will+have done+yesterday

    Boss: I must call John and tell him to finish that report.

    Staff member: Don't worry, he will have finished it yesterday.


    Hi All!

    What's your opinion of the highlighted construction?
  2. 18-Jul-2004, 20:06 #2
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    Yesterday??

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  3. 18-Jul-2004, 20:54 #3
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    Quote Originally Posted by milky
    Boss: I must call John and tell him to finish that report.

    Staff member: Don't worry, he will have finished it yesterday.




    Hi All!

    What's your opinion of the highlighted construction?
    It's incorrect.

    He will have finished it.... This is the future perfect tense. The future perfect expresses an activity that will be completed before another time or event in the future.

    He will have finished it by the time it's needed. OK
    He will have finished it before six o'clock this evening. OK
    :)
  4. 19-Jul-2004, 00:17 #4
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    It may be incorrect in American English, but this usage is fine in British English. We use the future perfect for assumptions about actions completed at the time of speaking. It may look strange to American speakers, but it's perfectly acceptable to Brits.
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    If he's forty, he'll have graduated nearly twenty years ago.

  6. 19-Jul-2004, 01:30 #6
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    It's incorrect.

    He will have finished it.... This is the future perfect tense. The future perfect expresses an activity that will be completed before another time or event in the future.

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    Mick Jagger had dithered about when to get his knighthood from the Queen. All being well, he will have done it yesterday, but only after a savage attack on him by his musical partner, Keith Richards, for joining the Establishment and betraying the image of delinquency cultivated by the Rolling Stones.
  7. 19-Jul-2004, 10:42 #7
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    We have the same construct in French. I didn't know it existed in English

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  8. 19-Jul-2004, 12:18 #8
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    Quote Originally Posted by Francois
    We have the same construct in French. I didn't know it existed in English

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    Not common in American English apparently. The Spanish also have the same construction.
  9. 20-Jul-2004, 02:26 #9
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    Quote Originally Posted by tdol
    If he's forty, he'll have graduated nearly twenty years ago.

  10. 20-Jul-2004, 23:15 #10
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    It is quite a sentence.
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