Present Perfect For Future When we study Present Perfect Tens | Cedric's Journal

Present Perfect For Future

When we study Present Perfect Tense at school or by ourselves, we usually avoid its aspect of being used for the future. It’s unhelpful to think of the Present Perfect construction solely in terms of past time as it may influence your understanding of a context of a sentence or a text it is used in.

It is not common for our language to use the past for the future, therefore it may sound weird to you and you will avoid using it while speaking, but knowing it passively will be helpful for you.

When and how to use it?

With the time clauses introduced by after, when, until, as soon as, once, by the time present perfect refers to future events:

We'll begin when everyone has arrived.
I'll keep looking until I have found my book.

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