Speak Better English with Harry | Episode 55

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  Hi there.

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  And here is the third sentence for this week.

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  As always, I'm going to read it for you twice the first time to give you particular understanding, and then I'm going to go through the individual aspects of the sentence and the grammatical structure that we are using.

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  As always, you'll be able to contact me directly if you wish.

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  I'll give you the details at the end of the podcast.

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  So here's the first reading, if you're ready.

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  By this time next week, I will have finished my holiday for another year.

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  Second reading, by this time next week, I will have finished my holiday for another year.

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  Okay, so we're using here the future perfect.

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  Okay, so there are two tenses we could use, future perfect and some cases future perfect continuous.

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  Okay, the important aspect about the future perfect is that it's referring to a particular event that will have finished at a particular time in the future.

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  And in this sentence we are saying by this time next week.

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  So this is the particular time we're talking about by this time next week.

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  So if today it is 08:00 so by this time next week, 08:00 on Thursday of the following week, I will have finished, the future perfect will have finished, and it's made up of the future simple of to be will have finished with the past participle.

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  Okay, so by this time next week, I will have finished my holiday for another year.

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  I could have said I would have finished my holidays.

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  So we can say holiday or holidays.

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  We can use both my holidays, meaning the number of days I had or my holiday, specifically referring to the holiday that I had in the south of France or the south of Spain, or indeed where I was recently in Canada.

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  Okay, so by this time next week.

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  So that's really important.

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