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235. Future Perfect B2 (short story)
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LOOKING BACK FROM A POINT IN THE FUTURE - FUTURE PERFECT
I have studied / I have been studying English for/since...
(from the past to the present)
Next September, I will have studied / been studying English for ten years
(from the past to a moment in the future
I will have had this car for fifteen years next month.
I will have lived / been living in Seville for twenty-five years
This summer I will have been working for three years at the car factory.
The structure is the same for other verbs that use modal auxiliary verbs
I should study now
I should have studied in the past (but I didn't)
We call this the perfect infinitive.
I could work in the car factory
I could have worked in the car factory (but I didn't)
I might buy that sweater I saw in the shop window.
I might have bought that sweater I saw in the shop window. (but I didn't)
(Georgia on my Mind cover by M.A. Bilbrough)
Read the story transcript at my website: https://www.practisingenglish.com/podcast-235.htm
At https://www.practisingenglish.com/ I offer learners of intermediate-level English, grammar help and exercises and other English learning pages.
https://www.practisingenglish.com/
My latest novel for learners of B2 English is called The Tudor Conspiracy. You can see it on Amazon here: https://amzn.to/33Axu2N
https://amzn.to/33Axu2N
Be back soon with another podcast!
Mike Bilbrough (Secondary school English teacher and Doctor in English philology)
238 episodes
Manage episode 475544239 series 2951241
Write to Mike Bilbrough to ask a question or give an opinion.
LOOKING BACK FROM A POINT IN THE FUTURE - FUTURE PERFECT
I have studied / I have been studying English for/since...
(from the past to the present)
Next September, I will have studied / been studying English for ten years
(from the past to a moment in the future
I will have had this car for fifteen years next month.
I will have lived / been living in Seville for twenty-five years
This summer I will have been working for three years at the car factory.
The structure is the same for other verbs that use modal auxiliary verbs
I should study now
I should have studied in the past (but I didn't)
We call this the perfect infinitive.
I could work in the car factory
I could have worked in the car factory (but I didn't)
I might buy that sweater I saw in the shop window.
I might have bought that sweater I saw in the shop window. (but I didn't)
(Georgia on my Mind cover by M.A. Bilbrough)
Read the story transcript at my website: https://www.practisingenglish.com/podcast-235.htm
At https://www.practisingenglish.com/ I offer learners of intermediate-level English, grammar help and exercises and other English learning pages.
https://www.practisingenglish.com/
My latest novel for learners of B2 English is called The Tudor Conspiracy. You can see it on Amazon here: https://amzn.to/33Axu2N
https://amzn.to/33Axu2N
Be back soon with another podcast!
Mike Bilbrough (Secondary school English teacher and Doctor in English philology)
238 episodes
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