4. Laura will have bought the ticket by then
Important
This title means one of Paco's thoughts: "Laura will have bought the ticket by then". The tense used is the future perfect.
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The future perfect refers to a completed action in the future. When we use this tense we are projecting ourselves forward into the future and looking back at an action that will be completed some time later than now. It is often used with a time expression using by + a point in future time. Click here to know more about its structure and functions.
Writing activity
One of the main uses of the future perfect, as you have seen, is to talk about past events in the future.
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Pay attention to your writing. Remember to write a plan with the main ideas you are going to include in your writing before starting to write.
Important
There is another future tense you may know: the future perfect continuous. Like the future perfect simple, this form is used to project ourselves
forward in time and to look back. It refers to events or actions in
a time between now and some future time, that may be unfinished. Click here to widen in its use and form.
Solved exercise
- They (talk) for over an hour by the time Thomas arrives.
- She (work) at that company for three years when it finally closes.
- James (teach) at the university for more than a year by the time he leaves for Asia.
- How long you (study) when you graduate?
- We (drive) for over three days straight when we get to Saigon.
Further knowledge
There is even one more tense to indicate future time: the future continuous tense that expresses action at a particular moment in the future. The action will start before that moment, but it will not have finished at that moment. Click here to widen in its use and structure
That's all about topic 2. In the next one Paco is travelling North to the capital city of Vietnam, Hanoi. Come on! Follow him in his visit.