Will be living / will have been living

[HelenZ]

Could you please tell me which is correct: 1. Joe will be living in Austria since April. 2 Joe will have been living in Austria since April.

 

[emsr2d2]

Could you please tell me which is correct?

1. Joe will be living in Austria since April.
2 Joe will have been living in Austria since April.

Note my addition of punctuation and improvement to your layout above. Neither sentence makes sense. There is no context in which either of them would work. Please explain what you're trying to say but using different words.

 

[probus]

1 is ungrammatical. 2 might be correct in some improbable contexts. We'd need more context to help you further with 2.

 

[HelenZ]

Thank you very much for your replies. Sadly, there is no more context as it is just an excercise.

 

[HelenZ]

1 is ungrammatical. 2 might be correct in some improbable contexts. We'd need more context to help you further with 2.

How could we change #1 in order to make it more grammatical?
In what improbable context could #2 be correct?

 

[Skrej]

Thank you very much for your replies. Sadly, there is no more context as it is just an excercise. exercise

You should have indicated that in the first post, along with the specific source. What is the source of these exercises?

Please answer this question before we approve your additional posts.

 

[HelenZ]

You should have indicated that in the first post, along with the specific source. What is the source of these exercises?

I am doing a B2 course with the British Council and this exercise just was on the teacher's screen. The teacher says that # 2 is correct.

 

[Skrej]

I am doing a B2 course with the British Council and this exercise just was on the teacher's screen. The teacher says that # 2 is correct.

Thank you. In the future, please indicate the source of any questions, or if they're your own, state that as well.

How could we change #1 in order to make it more grammatical?
In what improbable context could #2 be correct?

As mentioned, #1 is ungrammatical. One (but not the only) way to fix it is remove 'since April 2nd', or change 'since' to something like 'next'.

This issue is that we can't use the simple future (or any simple tense for that matter) to discuss duration. That's a feature of aspect (usually the perfect or perfect continuous).

While #2 isn't ungrammatical, it's just odd because it's missing a future time element. We typically use the future perfect continuous to illustrate a future continuous action that will be completed before some future time: With #2, we're lacking that second component of a future time.

A: How long has Joe been in Austria?
B: Well, next month, Joe will have been living in Austria since April. (I've boldfaced the missing future time element to make the future perfect continuous make sense.)

That example isn't even a terribly natural use, but it at least contains the expected future time element.

We'd typically use the present perfect continuous "Joe has been living in Austria since April" here to discuss a continued action that started in the past, is still ongoing, and may possibly continue into the future. Or perhaps even just the present perfect. There's just not a good reason in this context to frame our answer in a future time reference.

A: How long has Joe been living in Austria?
B: He's been living there since April.
or
B: He's been there since April.

 

[HelenZ]

Thank you so much for this detailed and clear explanation, Skreyj.