Do you remember High School English class? Not English lit or American lit. I mean the class where they taught or tried to teach us all about adjectives and adverbs and dangling participles? One of the things I remember about English class diagramming sentences. It was then that we had to know all parts of a sentence and especially all the various tenses. Past, Present, Future and then there was one that always bumfuzzled people, the Future Perfect. According to the website, www.EnglishPage.com, "The Future Perfect expresses the idea that something will occur before another action in the future. It can also show that something will happen before a specific time in the future." (1)
Some Examples of Future Perfect:
- By the time she gets home from work, he's going to have cooked an entire m…