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	Podcast:		Practising English
	Episode:		235. Future Perfect B2 (short story)
	Category:		Education
	Duration:		00:18:31
	Publish Date:		2025-04-06 21:00:00
	Description:		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) 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)
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