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? To: [log in to unmask] 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. To join or leave this LISTSERV list, please visit the list's web interface at: http://listserv.muohio.edu/archives/ateg.html and select "Join or leave the list" Visit ATEG's web site at http://ateg.org/ To join or leave this LISTSERV list, please visit the list's web interface at: http://listserv.muohio.edu/archives/ateg.html and select "Join or leave the list" Visit ATEG's web site at http://ateg.org/