235. Future Perfect B2 (short story)

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)

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