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lolwhites - Yeah, sorry...I guess I should have been more specific. I know that will is a modal verb and not technically a tense and my grammar book(s) do indeed state that the term "future tense" is sometimes viewed as a misnomer since in English future verb stems are not infelcted to express futur...

Thanks for your reply... Spanish does have a future perfect tense - it's English that doesn't. Can you elaborate on this? Maybe it's because I just woke up, but I don't quite understand when you say English doesn't have a future perfect - I certainly see it in my grammar books... Bad habit; she's re...

Hey everyone - This evening I tried to teach the future perfect tense (will + have + past participle) to a native Spanish speaker, though she had some trouble understanding the meaning of it and when to use it. She tries to associate anything new in English with Spanish to help her understand. So my...