[Grammar] Future Perfect or Present Simple

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Hi everyone!

I have a sentence to be written in correct form. It's grammar test, I do it myself:

We won't join you at the party as the last underground train will have left/leaves at eleven-thirty.

I guess this is Simple Future Tense since there is "we will not join..." in the main part of sentence. So, it should be written as:

We won't join you at the party as the last underground train leaves at eleven-thirty.

It it correct?

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You've used the right tense but with the wrong name. Leaves is an example of the present simple.
 
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I meant Simple Future Tense refers to "We won't join...". Present simple do refers to "Leaves"
 

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I meant that the simple future tense refers to "We won't join...". ​The present simple [STRIKE]do[/STRIKE] refers to "leaves".

See above. We don't capitalise the names of the tenses.
 

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Hi everyone!

I'm trying
[STRIKE]have a sentence[/STRIKE] to write the following sentence [STRIKE]be written[/STRIKE] in the correct form. It's from grammar test that I'm doing by [STRIKE], I do it [/STRIKE]myself:

We won't join you at the party as the last underground train will have left/leaves at eleven-thirty.

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I meant [STRIKE]Simple Future Tense refers to[/STRIKE] "We won't join..." is in the future simple tense and [STRIKE]. Present simple do refers to[/STRIKE] "leaves" is in the present simple tense.

See corrections and above answers.
 

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You are right, "will have left" would be wrong.
 
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