Tham khảo tài liệu 'oxford practice grammar part 9', ngoại ngữ, ngữ pháp tiếng anh phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | 29 Will have done and was going to We use will have a past participle the future perfect for something that will be over in the future. Sarah is thinking of a future time half past eight . At half past eight she will be able to say I have finished . Here are some more examples. like looking at these pictures but I ll have had enough by lunch-time. Trevor and Laura will have lived here for four years next April. This chess game is going to last ages. They won t have finished it until midnight. Will you have read this book by the time it s due back to the library Yes. I ll have finished it by then. We often use the future perfect with expressions of time such as by lunch-time until midnight before then by the time you have to take it back. We can use be going to in the past tense to express an intention in the past. Trevor intended to put the shelves up yesterday. Often the intended action did not happen. In fact Trevor did not put the shelves up. Here are some more examples. was going to tidy the flat but I didn t have time. Daniel wasn t going to spend any money but he saw a jacket he just had to buy. The girls left early. They were going to catch the eight o clock train. So you went to the airport without a ticket. Where were you going to fly to The woman walked away just as I was going to speak to her. just as at the moment when We can also use was going to for a prediction in the past. knew something was going to go wrong with the plan. Would has a similar meaning see Unit 134C . knew something would go wrong with the plan. 29 Exercises 1 Will have done A Paul wants to be an artist. He s reading about a famous artist called Winston Plummer. Winston Plummer was a great artist who had a wonderful career. He won lots of prizes before he was twenty. By the age of twenty-five he had had his own exhibition. He was the subject of a TV documentary by the time he was thirty. By the age of thirty-five he had become world-famous. He made millions of pounds from his .
