Timeline for "will have avoided" vs. "will avoid" in the following context
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| Feb 22, 2015 at 15:13 | vote | accept | Michael Rybkin | ||
| Feb 6, 2015 at 11:52 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackEnglishLL/status/563666547160645632 | ||
| Feb 5, 2015 at 19:37 | comment | added | TimR | "What will be said? That France and Germany will have done everything they could do to take action to resolve the conflict." I agree with CopperKettle here. "Will have done" should be "did" there. But "will have avoided" is correct because of the conditional, "If we succeed". | |
| Feb 5, 2015 at 16:36 | answer | added | nkjt | timeline score: 5 | |
| Feb 5, 2015 at 15:40 | history | edited | Michael Rybkin | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Feb 5, 2015 at 14:23 | history | edited | CowperKettle |
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| Feb 5, 2015 at 14:23 | comment | added | CowperKettle | I'm also curious about the use of the Future Perfect in "will have done everything" - why not simply "did"? | |
| Feb 5, 2015 at 13:47 | comment | added | M.A.R. | "Have avoided" gets the sentence in its full sense. | |
| Feb 5, 2015 at 13:36 | history | asked | Michael Rybkin | CC BY-SA 3.0 |