Timeline for Future Perfect with the perfect infinitive
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| Mar 26, 2019 at 1:48 | answer | added | fred2 | timeline score: 1 | |
| Mar 25, 2019 at 17:53 | comment | added | Don B. | @ Michael Azarenko "I can come by the evening is understandable," but I would most likely say, "I can come by this evening." Not trying to nitpick, but it sounds more natural to me. Of course, in this case, "by" does not refer to time. I'm using it in this way: "I can come by, if you would like." | |
| Mar 25, 2019 at 17:30 | comment | added | Michael Azarenko | But anyway is my logic here right about all these moments? Or there is something I was mistaken in my words? You know, the main problem why I started asking this was: I didn't know if I had to have the pefect form with "by some moment". For example, "I can come by the evening". Is it correct or no? On the one hand we have some moment in the future by which I can come. It's the Future Perfect usage. Therefore this sentence should have "have" like "I can have come by the evening". But if we use "have" it will be about past, not about a possibility to come by some moment in the future... | |
| Mar 25, 2019 at 17:26 | comment | added | Colin Fine | I can't imagine anybody saying that sentence in real life. It makes sense, but both will have wanted and to have gone are rare in speech, and the pairing makes it very rare. | |
| Mar 25, 2019 at 17:23 | history | asked | Michael Azarenko | CC BY-SA 4.0 |