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Cynthia,
A context:
Speaker A: I will bring in my submission to the project tomorrow morning.
Speaker B: We will have finished the project tomorrow. Your submission would be too late. Bring it in by 4 o'clock this afternoon if you want it to be included.
This seems to work well. The future perfect seems useful and correct here.
Scott Woods
--- On Wed, 3/4/09, Cynthia Baird <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
From: Cynthia Baird <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: incorrect future perfect?
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Date: Wednesday, March 4, 2009, 7:48 PM
Would anyone care to comment on this sentence? It came up in a literacy textbook I have to use, and a student had real difficulty with accepting this as a logical sentence. I gave him my explanation about why I thought the sentence was problematic, but I would like to hear from some of you to know if I was right or wrong in my assessment of the sentence.
The sentence read as follows:
We will have finished the project tomorrow.
I know the sentence contains a future perfect, and I risk Brad's comments, but so be it.
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