Here's an assignment from a test I've just finished doing.
There, option 1 seems to be the second correct--at least to the test setters--since options 2 and 4 can't be correct, at least to me:)
Anyway, I could not find it being discussed anywhere online or mentioned in "my" edition of Swan's Practical English Usage ((entries 213, 216, and 218--going to (future auxiliary)).
Can anyone kindly explain it to me or just share a link to a source where it is explained?
Yet another grammar construction new to me
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It was discussed here, on a couple occasions again=), just with the continuous infinitive:
Yety (зачем используется такая конструкция?)
The 'is going to' construction is similar to 'will' for future, and thus they both can be used with all the four infinitives, perfect included.
Its likelihood is discussed here:
https://forum.wordreference.com/threads ... e.2440282/
'Is going to have done' is called a variant of the future perfect here:
https://www.englishpage.com/verbpage/futureperfect.html
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Yety,
Thanks! What would we do without you? :-)
https://www.ecenglish.com/learnenglish/ ... fect-tense
Would I be right, I wonder, saying that the seemingly rather rare use of "be going to have done" form may be found in contexts referring to a far lesser degree of certainty/resolution? And that the slight, if there is any, difference between the two is that of just choosing between "I will/was" and "I am/was going to"?
Anyway, as far as the google search goes, you're a real virtuoso:-) How else, but not by putting the appropriately worded request in the search-box, would one get the helpful links? Now I see, thanks to your links , that it should've been " future perfect tense, be going to". Unlike you and the most of other this site's frequenters, I'm a lousy google-searcher:(
https://ell.stackexchange.com/questions ... re-perfect
Thanks! What would we do without you? :-)
And here, they are said to be interchangeable:Yety пишет: ↑07 сен 2021, 23:53 Is going to have done' is called a variant of the future perfect here:
https://www.englishpage.com/verbpage/futureperfect.html
https://www.ecenglish.com/learnenglish/ ... fect-tense
Would I be right, I wonder, saying that the seemingly rather rare use of "be going to have done" form may be found in contexts referring to a far lesser degree of certainty/resolution? And that the slight, if there is any, difference between the two is that of just choosing between "I will/was" and "I am/was going to"?
Anyway, as far as the google search goes, you're a real virtuoso:-) How else, but not by putting the appropriately worded request in the search-box, would one get the helpful links? Now I see, thanks to your links , that it should've been " future perfect tense, be going to". Unlike you and the most of other this site's frequenters, I'm a lousy google-searcher:(
https://ell.stackexchange.com/questions ... re-perfect
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Second that. And that seems to contradict this hypothesis:
I guess the difference lies in the opposition you mentioned above, not necessarily with the degree of certainty.
It was actually "going to have done" - as simple as that. And I had already visited the ENGLISHPAGE website once. So, no sweat, actually.=))
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