IMAHO, the student is right to be troubled. The sentence should read: ( a ) We will finish the project tomorrow, or ( b ) We will have finished the project by tomorrow, or ( c ) By tomorrow, we will have finished the project. Past perfect: By the time something happened, something else had already happened. Future perfect: By the time something happens, something else will have already happened. Totally risk-free, non e cosi? .brad.05mar09. --- On Wed, 3/4/09, Cynthia Baird <[log in to unmask]> wrote: 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/