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The +Future Perfect Tense+ expresses action to be completed at some
specified future time.
+Example+.--I _shall have seen_ him by to-morrow noon.
+Direction+.--_Study what has been said above about the meaning of the
tense forms, and describe carefully the time expressed by each of the
following verbs_:--
1. I go to the city to-morrow.
2. The village master taught his little school.
3. Plato reasons well.
4. A triangle has three sides.
5. To-morrow is the day appointed.
6. Moses has told many important facts.
7. The ship sails next week.
8. She sings well.
9. Cicero has written orations.
10. He would sit for hours and watch the smoke curl from his pipe.
11. You may hear when the next mail arrives,
12. Had I known this before, I could have saved you much trouble.
13. He will occasionally lose his temper.
14. At the end of this week I shall have been in school four years.
15. If I were you, I would try that.
16. He will become discouraged before he has thoroughly tried it.
17. She starts, she moves, she seems to feel the thrill of life along her
keel.
+Model for Written Parsing adapted to all Parts of Speech+. _Oh! it has a
voice for those who on their sick beds lie and waste away._
[Transcriber's Note: The following two tables have been split to fit within
Project Gutenberg line-width requirements.


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