Microsoft Word – FGB§2 verbs

Exercise 34 [use of the future perfect tense]
1 They’ll have returned by two o’clock.
2 We shall have been working for hours.
3 I shan’t have completed this by this evening.
4 Will you have finished your dinner?
5 They will have become lazier.
6 We shall have received them all by then.
7 I shall have seen her by tomorrow morning.
8 They’ll have been waiting for us.
9 Next year I’ll have been learning French for 5 years.
10 They will have provided it.
THE CONDITIONAL PERFECT TENSE
Formation: use the CONDITIONAL of avoir or être and the past participle.
J’aurais fini I would have finished je serais venu I would have come
Use: [1] to translate the English conditional perfect [I would have done]
[2] to translate the English continuous conditional perfect [I would have been doing]
[3] with devoir to translate should have and ought to have
Tu aurais dû le faire You should have done it
[4] with pouvoir to translate might have and could have
Tu aurais pu le faire You could have done it
For a fuller description of the use of these modal verbs (pouvoir, devoir, etc.), see the explanation
under COMMON AUXILIARY VERBS.
Exercise 35 [use of the perfect conditional]
1 We could have been waiting for hours.
2 If you gave me it, I would pay for it.
3 You would have given her everything.
4 It would never have been written.
5 I would have come if you’d asked me to.
6 She would have fallen.
7 If we hadn’t told them, they wouldn’t have come back.
8 He wouldn’t have seen it.
9 She wouldn’t have left without telling me.
10 The baker would have lowered his prices.
11 The ship would have sunk.
12 The child would have grown.
13 The noise would have died down.
14 He would have gone upstairs.
15 He wouldn’t have noticed the mistake.