".........he'll meet his dad."

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Sep 27, 2023 at 20:54	comment	added	Colin Fine		English speakers often don't use complex have forms when they could, if the temporal relationships are clear without. (Note that, though such forms are often called "perfect" - past perfect, future perfect, perfect infinitive etc - they do not have the special semantics of the present perfect, and simply move the action into the past relative to where it would have been. If that "past"-ness is already established,speakers often simplify the construction).
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Sep 27, 2023 at 20:04	comment	added	TimR on some device		@PatrickSzalapski The future perfect in the subordinate clause sounds unidiomatic to me in this example where the matrix clause it already in the future. It feels like the sentence is swallowing its own tail, such that it could be paraphrased: "There will be additional times in the future when the situation will arise that there will be a scheduled meeting between them that is set to happen in the then near future."
Sep 27, 2023 at 18:49	comment	added	Patrick Szalapski		"This will be the first time they have met" seems wrong to me; I'd instead say or write, "This will be the first time they will have met."--that's future perfect, right?
Sep 27, 2023 at 17:33	comment	added	Yunus		very detailed and satisfying explanation. And It answers all my questions. Thank you very much.
Sep 27, 2023 at 17:29	vote	accept	Yunus
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Sep 27, 2023 at 16:13	history	answered	TimR on some device	CC BY-SA 4.0