Nonverbis
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Please, have a look at the screenshot above.
It is English Grammar in use by Raymond Murphy.
this construction looks strange to me. It is taken from Appendix 4.
Will means as if future, but now means as if present.
Will is a modal verb. But if I'm not mistaken, Murphy didn't show this very construction in the main part of the textbook.
In the second edition unit 24 is dedicated tothis construction. But they all refer to the future like "The fil will already have started by the time we get to the cinema".
So, could you help me understand "She will have arrived by now".