User:Robbiemuffin/Using English Grammar Graphics/Future tense
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the Future Simple
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the Future Perfect
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the Non-continuous sense of the Future Perfect
Future Simple
[edit]In normal use, it expresses a future event. It includes a continuous-like form (are doing/will do) which nonetheless still expresses an event wholly contained in the future.
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Future Continuous
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Future Perfect
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on a personal note, I have no idea why this distinction The Non-Continuous sense (contrast with Future Perfect Continuous) of the Future perfect is just like the general sense, except that it implies a definite beginning prior to the now of the sentence. In some sense, all sentences imply a definite beginning and end (try creating a timeless phrase), but here we exclude durations that go to the beginning of their context (my age, the history of mankind, the age of the earth, the age of the universe). For example:
but not:
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Future Perfect Continuous
[edit]The dotted line in this image details the point after which the continued event is instantiated.
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