Mary Bright
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Tomorrow I ___________ in the sun for two hours.
1) will have been lying
2) will have lain
The sentence was in a book where there are different contest tasks in English. One of my students chose the Future Perfect whereas I preferred the Future Perfect Progressive.
As far as I know, the two variants are possible and there's not such great difference between them. For some reason, they gave 2) as the preferable variant. Can't understand why.
For me the Future Perfect would fit best in a sentence like, for example,
'Tomorrow I will have lain for two hours in the sun and then will have a nice swim', or using by the time... etc.
It obviously shows the completeness of the action.
Maybe I feel it wrong, but I do prefer the Future Perfect Progressive in this sentence. Just would like to know what you think on the point.
1) will have been lying
2) will have lain
The sentence was in a book where there are different contest tasks in English. One of my students chose the Future Perfect whereas I preferred the Future Perfect Progressive.
As far as I know, the two variants are possible and there's not such great difference between them. For some reason, they gave 2) as the preferable variant. Can't understand why.
For me the Future Perfect would fit best in a sentence like, for example,
'Tomorrow I will have lain for two hours in the sun and then will have a nice swim', or using by the time... etc.
It obviously shows the completeness of the action.
Maybe I feel it wrong, but I do prefer the Future Perfect Progressive in this sentence. Just would like to know what you think on the point.