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For questions about the future perfect, which is will/shall + have + the past participle of the main verb.

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Future perfect vs present perfect

The second speaker would only say He hasn't started yet if they knew that for a fact. He won't have started yet expresses a belief that the lecturer has probably not started his talk..
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By the time phrase and future simple. Possible?

I'll have had lots of money could mean that you will have got the money and lost it again! (This is because I had money implies that you don't have it any longer.) However, you could say, for example …
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By tomorrow, by 2050. Do such adverbs of time require perfect tenses?

Yes, all those sentences are grammatical. By tomorrow, he will have left Paris. When tomorrow comes, he will no longer be in Paris. It doesn't say exactly when he will leave. I will leave Paris by tom …
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As you say, being dead is a condition, not something that happens to you. We will be dead by then expresses your meaning without any need for the future perfect. If you particularly want to use it, yo …
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