🔥EXPLAINED! Why we use the PAST to talk about the FUTURE in English

⏰⬅️🚗💨 Start the DeLorean... we're going to be using the past tense to talk about the future in this English grammar lesson. This is called the future perfect tense, and in this video I explain how, when and why we use the past to talk about the future in English...
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► CHAPTERS:
00:00 Using the past to talk about the future in English
1:01 What is the present perfect tense?
3:00 When to use a future tense?
5:33 I finish v I have finished
6:57 More future perfect examples
8:00 Why we use future perfect
10:21 Future perfect tense in questions
10:57 More advanced tenses in English
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Hope you liked the lesson! Remember to leave your example sentences below ⬇️

[@aofsiwanon]

Thanks so much Greg. I was wodering if this lesson is similar to ''future in the past''. What is 'future in the past'?Thanks. Do you happen to have the lesson about that?

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I am really happy to watch your videos which are well-explained English to non-native students regarding tenses that we do not have in our mother tongue. Can you please explain why do use the gerund (READING) in the last sentence (after YOU HAVE FINISHED)? Thanks!

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I will wander outside when I've finished my work.

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[@maccale]

We use that kind of phrasing a lot in Spanish, it is called "pretérito perfecto" (perfect tense). I've never realized it was mixing future actions with present verbs until now that I hear you explain it in English!

[@marinopayan7338]

Lo que sucede es que, en español, se llama "pretérito perfecto" (lo que en inglés es "present perfect"), pero cuando se usa de esta forma, es pretérito perfecto, pero del subjuntivo. En inglés posee la misma forma, pero con algunas estructuras que lo identifican. Por ejemplo "ya he terminado mi tarea". El ejemplo anterior es pasado perfecto (pretérito perfecto), pero del indicativo. El indicativo se usa para hablar de cosas que ya son. Ahora bien, si digo "Te llamaré cuando haya terminado mi tarea" sigue siendo pretérito perfecto, pero en modo subjuntivo. El subjuntivo se usa para deseos, hipótesis, o cosas que no necesariamente están pasando, pero que podrían pasar o que quizá no pasen. Si digo "Yo soy un intelectual" en esa oración "Yo soy" es algo que ya es, lo estamos indicando. Esa oración está en "tiempo presente del modo indicativo". Ahora bien, si yo digo "Cuando yo sea grande, seré un intelectual" en esa oración "yo sea" también está en presente, pero del subjuntivo. Es algo probable, pero que no es al momento de decirlo.

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Great topic Greg! I think that in Spanish language, it wil be: "Voy a buscar trabajo cuando HAYA pasado mi examen". Your videos are very useful, thanks.

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Brilliant. Past tense use to talk about the past. 😊

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Greg, I simply enjoyed this refreshing lesson. And let me know if I’m wrong or right: when we use “I’ll call you when I finish my homework”, as you’ve wisely explained, it sounds like “...AS SOON AS I finish my homework (right after I do it). Thank you indeed!

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[@TheAkkb]

These things are all about the playing the game from 0 to 1 conditionals and vise versa. What is remarkable is the present perfect softly comply with both grammar rules. It is hard to learn separately each tense, because some tenses are secondary, but in groups it becomes much easier. It is a specific of the way how do the British perceive the time.

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I got confused with the tense You taught us and the future perfect tense will have + pp. I think I shoud learn that in depth to work it out. Thanks. Teacher!

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Hello Greg. Could you make a lesson which explains the future in the past?

[@marcinz6106]

Thanks for great clear explenation. Kindly ask you to prepare similar video about talking in the past about future. It will be be very helpfull for me. Big thanks in advance :)

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Thanks Sir you explained clear.I will cook dinner when I have been at home.

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Your video is invaluable! Since “after” and “when” are giving the similar meaning in the example. I’m wondering whether the word “before” is applicable in this case. If I connect the two sentences with “before”. Will it be correct in term of grammatical point of view. Ex. I will arrive at the school before you have finished your work. I’m hopeful to hear the answer coming from you. Thank you very much!

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Hi! As it for me, more native construction is: I will have arrived at school when you finished your work. i.e. You can't meet me going to the school after work - I'll be in classes.

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This is what I've been searching for a long time but couldn't find much info, thanks Greg for always being a step ahead of others. May i clarify is the use of past simple allowed or only present perfect tense can be used?

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Hi Greg. It looks like using Conditionals 1 but instead of Present Simple here is Present Perfect. Is the difference between "Can I borrow that book when you have finished..." and "Can I borrow that book when you finish..." that the first option means you can give me the book a day or a month after finishing? But the second one means the minute after you finish? Thank you :)

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[@PetiteKero]

Same in German where "Futur 2" would just sound so much more complex than the simple "Perfekt" form. "Wenn ich das Buch gelesen habe" > "Wenn ich das Buch gelesen haben werde" Would it even sound reasonable in English to say "I will give you the book once I WILL have finished it"? :D

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[@frankmoore7292]

Some linguists distinguish between time references and verb tense. So speakers can use adverbs to make verb phrases refer to future events eg. "After I have finished my lunch..." but the verb "have" is still present tense (perfect aspect). Some argue English has no future tense as other ways are used to refer to the future. "Will", for example, as a modal, is not a tensed verb.

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[@davidmelara1854]

Hello there. The sentence on bottom is curious. I'm bemused, I don't know whether using after past participle (finished) gerund (reading it), or infinitive (to read it) or present simple (read it). «When you have finished reading it». Greg, give me a hand, would you?

[@manuel05italy81]

That was really helpful! I didn't know you used to do that, but I understood it because here in Italy we use to use the italian correspondent of present perfect to talk about future things exactly as you do. Anyways I didn't know you did too so thank you so much!

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Thank you for this 👍. Please I want to know what tense to use in this kind of situation:I'm watching a clip online with a friend,and can't understand something about the clip, should I say "what is happening to the box?" or "what happened to the box?". Since the time when the clip was recorded had past . Thank you.

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Another example of past to talk about future is something like "If John came to the party, he would have a good time." The party here is in the future. Past tense is used because we don't think he will come.

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I have been watching studying lessons for a long time but such perfect i could see only now. Did i say it correctly ? I mean could i use PrPerfCont and past simple in one sentence

[@ronenr1405]

Thank you, Greg! In my opinion “present perfect” is considered “present” and not “past”...

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Interesting! 🤔 I'm sure you're not alone, and if is helps you to use it correctly, then that's totally fine! 👍🏼👍🏼

[@ynnad2702]

Of course is not present! "I am 50 years old and I HAVE TAUGHT English since I was 20"... Is this "present" for you????

[@inbcetc3569]

@@ynnad2702 It's present perfect. Present TENSE with perfect aspect. Your example sentence means that [Now] you have taught English... It's seen from the present moment. Tense is not the same as time. Present TENSE is not identical to present TIME.

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There's a moment in "Harry Potter and Deathly Hallows" when Harry is watching Snape's memories. There is a memory when Dumbledore says to Snape "When you have killed me Severus..." which means what Snape has to do after killing Dumbledore. When I read it for the first time I had a problem why Present Perfect was used to express the future (I already knew the meaning from my native translation).

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*Can we use the auxiliary 'May' to talk about the future?*

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I should arrive before 5 pm. And I should have finished this book before Friday. ( Please Explain the both mentioned sentences)

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Gotten married Been controlled

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Got also correct as it is a past participle of get . Thank you .

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Hi Greg! Look at these two phrases. I'll pick you up when I've fixed my car. I'll pick you up when I've had my car fixed. Are they both correct? Do they have the same meaning? Is there any mistake? Thanks a lot for your video

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