2015-03-30 Structure: future perfect & prog.

Greg Malivuk
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Homework: p. 87 exercise 3
1 By the time Debbie moves into an apartment, she’ll have already started college.
2 By the time she moves into an apartment, she won’t have gotten married yet.
3 By the time she starts college, she won’t have bought a used car yet.
4 By the time she graduates from college, she’ll have moved into an apartment already.
5 By the time she spends a summer in France, she won’t have found a job at a bank yet.
6 By the time she graduates from college, she will already have spent a summer in France.
7 By the time she gets married, she’ll have already graduated from college.
8 By the time she moves to Miami, she won’t have bought a home yet.
9 By the time she becomes a parent, she will have already graduated from college.
10 By the time she buys a home, she won’t yet have become a parent.
She won’t (yet) have become a parent (yet).
She will (already) have (already) graduated from college (already)
Will she have bought a house yet?
sometimes: Will she (already) have (already) bought a house (already)?
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With long actions, we don’t need progressive to tell us the action has continued for some time:
I will have lived in Boston for 10 years.
They will have been married for 25 years.
She will have worked at BAE for 5 years.
(We understand that these situations normally continue for a long time.)

* I will have read this book for a month. (doesn’t make sense)
I will have been reading this book for a month. (future perfect progressive)
(For medium and short actions, we need to use progressive to show that the action continues for some time.)
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                               I      will have been    reading  this book for a month.
Future Perfect Progressive: subject + will have been + verb(ing)

(We almost always use this to tell how long something will have continued.)
(If it doesn’t answer the question, “How long?” you probably don’t need this tense.)
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p. 88-89 exercise 4 - (in pairs) write all of the questions first, then answer them
1 By February 19, how long will Debbie have been saving money?
  By February 19, she will have been saving for seven weeks.
2 By April 19, how much will she have saved?
  She will have saved $35 or $40 (depending on when exactly she saves the money).
3 By June 16, how many books will he have read?
  He will have read 15 books.
4 How long will he have been running by May 29?
  He will have been running for 36 days (five weeks).
5 How many miles will she have run by May 29?
  She will have run 72 miles by then.
6 Will he have saved $100 by March 27?
  No, he won’t have. (Include “have” in the short answer for perfect tense questions.)
7 How many apartments will he have painted by May 29?
  He will have painted six apartments.
8 Will he have finished by June 19?
  Yes, he will have.
9 Will she have lost 20 pounds by May 21?
  Yes, she will have. (It’s exactly 20 weeks.)
10 How long will he have been studying by April 26?
   He will have been studying for 9 weeks.
11 How much interest will he have paid by the end of June?
   He will have paid $40 of interest.
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Fence post error: If fence posts are 5 meters apart and your fence is 20m long, you have 5 fence posts, not 4, because there is one at the beginning.
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p. 90 exercise 5
By this time next year, I’ll have gotten my debt under control.
I won’t have become debt-free, but I’ll have made a good start.
I’ll have been recording all my spending for a month.
I’ll already have transferred all of my balances to those two cards
And I’ll have closed six accounts by then too!
When I graduate, I will have been paying more than the minimum on my cards for 3 months
by then I will have had experience in managing debt. (“then” = after I graduate = future)
How much progress will we “typical” college students have made by next January 1?
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Remember: *All* perfect tenses mean something happens or starts before another thing.
If that “other thing” is in the past -> past perfect
If the “other thing” is now -> present perfect
If the “other thing” is in the future -> future perfect
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No homework (tomorrow there may be new students)