The final silent e in the word cape makes the plural look like the -es is pronounced as a separate syllable /ozA but it is not. We have merely added a single sibilant sound, /s/, to the end of the singular form. | Verb Tenses 139 The audience took their seats before the curtain go up. The audience had taken their seats before the curtain went up. 1. Apparently the driver suffer a heart attack before the automobile accident happen. 2. After the play receive a bad review the playwright decide to make some revisions. 3. I make plans before they call with their invitation. 4. Watson write up each case after Sherlock Holmes solve the crime. 5. Before we go two miles my bicycle get a flat tire. 6. After the snow stop we immediately shovel off the driveway. 7. As soon as the rain let up we dash out of the building. 8. After the plane experience a sudden drop in cabin pressure the pilot request an unscheduled landing. 9. Apparently Shakespeare write his first play before he ever go to London. 10. After I read the report I begin to understand what the problems were. 11. I continue doing that for some time until I finally get some new instructions. 12. We vacation in Hawaii every summer for years until we have children. 140 Verb Phrases 13. I wait until the office close that night at five. 14. We be able to start the game after the ground crew remove the cover from the field. 15. Before we settle on my current job they offer me several other assignments. Future perfect The future perfect FP consists of will have the future tense of have followed by a verb in the past participle form. The action or event described by the future perfect tense must be completed prior to some other future time or event. The future time can be expressed as an adverb of time. For example FP I will have finished everything by noon. FP By noon we will have already finished. The future time can also be expressed in another clause which can be in the present tense PT or present perfect Pres P . For example PT FP By the time you get this message I will already have left. Pres P FP By the time you have gotten this message I will already have left. The two clauses can occur in either order FP Pres P He will have .
