PERFECT TENSES

                                      PERFECT TENSES

 Future Perfect Tense is a bit different. It is a combination of two tenses--- Future+ Present.
Nobody has seen tomorrow for when tomorrow comes it comes in the shape of today. In the case of future tense of time everything is guess work. So it gets mingled with the present tense. Let us take an example. The following is a conditional sentence.:

                                            If you come tomorrow I will accompany you.
We can clearly see that there two clauses in this sentence. The principal clause is in the simple future tense but the sub-clause is in the simple present tense.  My '' accompanying you'' depends on your ''coming'' which is uncertain. You may or may not come....but if you come I will accompany you. The sub-clause does not carry the assertion of the principal clause.

In the case of future perfect tense there are two parts. We use two clauses-one principal and the second one sub-clause. Both of them are very much assertive in nature. It is also a sort of conditional sentence though the main action does not depend on the second action.

                              I will have finished my task    before you come back home.

Here also the sub-clause is an adverb clause but it is not a conditional clause. I am just stating a fact. it is a statement of intent. I am assuring you that I will complete the work within a certain/ definite period of time.

( Please remember the form of verb. In the principal clause we use will/ shall then we use the perfect form have+ past participle form of the verb but in the sub-clause we use the simple present form of the verb.) H A P P Y     L E A R N I N G.