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Future Perfect Continuous

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"She will have been waiting for two hours when we arrive." The future perfect continuous empathizes the duration of an action and is used for actions in the future that will be finished at a specific time. Like every other continuous tense, it doesn't exist in German. Formation: subject + auxiliary "will"/"won't" + infinite present [...]

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Future Perfect Simple

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"They will have returned in a few minutes." The future perfect simple is equivalent to the German tense "Futur II" and describes actions which start in the present and will be completed at a certain point in the future. It can be indicated by "by then" (= bis dahin) for example. Formation: subject + auxiliary

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Will – Future

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"I'll be back in 30 minutes." The will - future is one way to express the future in English and is used to describe actions which are hoped for, expected or assumed or for descisions that are made spontanously. Formation: subject + auxiliary "will"/"won't" + infinite verb Examples: They assume that she won't do her

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Going – to – Future

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"He is not going to go to school tomorrow." The going - to - future is one way to express the future in English. It describes logical conclusions for the future and actions that are planned. Formation: subject + finite present form of "be" (+ not) + "going to" + infinite Verb Examples: I am

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Past Perfect Continuous

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"They had not been talking for three days until she called him." The past perfect continuous describes an action in the past which lies ahead of a younger action in the past and is used to empathize the duration of the action. Typical indication words for the past perfect continuous can be "for/since" and "the

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Past Perfect

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"They had talked to the teacher... ...before they went home." The past perfect is equivalent to the German "Plusquamperfekt". It is used to express and differ between older and younger actions so if there is an action and another action, which happened before, is supposed to be described, the older action has to be expressed

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Present Perfect Continuous

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"It has been raining all day." The present perfect continuous is used for actions that start in the past and continue or are still happening in the present. It is often indicated by "for"/"since" (= seit), "the whole day"/"all day" (= den ganzen Tag). It doesn't exist in German but is there often used like

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Present Perfect

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"We have just bought a new car." The present perfect expresses actions which happen in the past but have a result in the present and generally don't happen regularly. It is translated into the German tenses "Perfekt" or "Präteritum". The present perfect is often indicated by "just"(= gerade), "already"(= schon -> only in sentences) or

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Conditional II

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"If she hadn't been too late, he wouldn't have needed to text her." The conditional II describes possibilities in the past. It is also often used for indirect speech or with the so called if - clauses. Formation: subject + "would"* (+ not) + "have" + past participle Examples: I would have liked to go

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Conditional I

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"If it wasn't raining, she wouldn't need an umbrella." The conditional I is used to express possibilities, typical behaviors in the past and for indirect speech. It is also often used in the so called if - clauses. Formation: subject + "would"* (+ not) + infinite verb Examples: We would leave now. If it wasn't

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Future Perfect Continuous

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