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LOOKING BACK FROM A POINT IN THE FUTURE - FUTURE PERFECTI 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 futureI will have had this car for fifteen years next month.I will have lived / been living in Seville for twenty-five yearsThis 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 verbsI should study nowI should have studied in the past (but I didn't)We call this the perfect infinitive.I could work in the car factoryI 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)
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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/33Axu2Nhttps://amzn.to/33Axu2NBe back soon with another podcast!Mike Bilbrough (Secondary school English teacher and Doctor in English philology)