3. GRAMMAR
The Future
Remember that you've already learnt the simple future forms in basic 2, please, review them in case you need it:
The Future
Remember that you've already learnt the simple future forms in basic 2, please, review them in case you need it:
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FUTURE PERFECT: WILL (WON'T) + HAVE + PAST PARTICIPLE
It shows an action that will end at (or before) a point in the future.
· Talks about a "past in the future".
· We often use by with the future perfect (to mean at or before), e.g. by this afternoon, by the time we get there, by the time you've finished, by the end of the year, by then.
It shows an action that will end at (or before) a point in the future.
· Talks about a "past in the future".
· We often use by with the future perfect (to mean at or before), e.g. by this afternoon, by the time we get there, by the time you've finished, by the end of the year, by then.
The form is: will (won't) + have + past participle
· to say that something will end at (or before) a particular point in the future.
Can I call you back around 4.00? I'll have finished looking through the contract by then.
· to say what we think has almost certainly happed by now.
They'll have left by now. (I'm 99% sure they have left)
should (shouldn't) + have + past participle
· to show that we think something will happen before a certain point in the future (but are not 100% sure).
I should've finished by about six or so.
Other examples:
+
You will have improved your English by the time you come back from the U.S.
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You will not (won't) have improved your English by the time you come back from the U.S.
?
Will you have improved your English by the time you come back from the U.S.?
By tomorrow I will have finished my essay.
Before winter, you will have sold your house.
Before we arrive home, my grandma' will have prepared our dinner.
We will not have finished these reports by 7 pm!!
· I will have finished my English homework by the time my husband arrives.
· Will you have finished your English homework by the time your mother arrives?
· By the end of this weekend, I will have revised my lessons.
· By the time her husband arrives home, she will have prepared dinner.
· I won't have finished this task by the end of June
The Future Perfect shows that something will occur before:
· to say that something will end at (or before) a particular point in the future.
Can I call you back around 4.00? I'll have finished looking through the contract by then.
· to say what we think has almost certainly happed by now.
They'll have left by now. (I'm 99% sure they have left)
should (shouldn't) + have + past participle
· to show that we think something will happen before a certain point in the future (but are not 100% sure).
I should've finished by about six or so.
Other examples:
+
You will have improved your English by the time you come back from the U.S.
-
You will not (won't) have improved your English by the time you come back from the U.S.
?
Will you have improved your English by the time you come back from the U.S.?
By tomorrow I will have finished my essay.
Before winter, you will have sold your house.
Before we arrive home, my grandma' will have prepared our dinner.
We will not have finished these reports by 7 pm!!
· I will have finished my English homework by the time my husband arrives.
· Will you have finished your English homework by the time your mother arrives?
· By the end of this weekend, I will have revised my lessons.
· By the time her husband arrives home, she will have prepared dinner.
· I won't have finished this task by the end of June
The Future Perfect shows that something will occur before:
- another action occurs in the future
- or before a specific time in the future.
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11. GRAMMAR
QUESTION TAGS
QUESTION TAGS: AUXILIARY + PRONOUN
· for agreement
The speaker wasn't exactly helping either, was he?
· for confirmation of an idea
They have music later on down there, don't they?
· in polite request
You couldn't pass me the salt, could you?
positive tags are often used to make polite requests
Other tags:
Let's start, shall we?
polite way to make suggestions
Pass me the salt, will you?
makes commands more polite
QUESTION TAGS
QUESTION TAGS: AUXILIARY + PRONOUN
· for agreement
The speaker wasn't exactly helping either, was he?
· for confirmation of an idea
They have music later on down there, don't they?
· in polite request
You couldn't pass me the salt, could you?
positive tags are often used to make polite requests
Other tags:
Let's start, shall we?
polite way to make suggestions
Pass me the salt, will you?
makes commands more polite
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