PERFECT TENSES

By next November, I .....received my promotion.

• will

• will be

• will have

• will had

I will have lent you the magazines by the time I ......reading it.

• had finished

• finish

• have finished

• will have finished

The chief accountant ...... the monthly report for seven hours when the director arrived.

• Had been scrutinizing

• Has been scrutinizing

• had scrutinized

• Had been scrutinized

By the time you get around to letting me read your memoir, you ...... her autobiography.

• Would write

• Will have written

• Will be writing

• Would be written

ASEAN trade ministers ... the possibility of developing economic cooperation before they attended the summit meeting last month.

• discuss

• discussed

• had discussed

• would discuss

Do you think ... by the time I return to this country next year?

• they will get married

• will they have got married

• will they get married

• they will have got married

I have written three letters. This means...

• she is still writing now

• she is not writing anymore

• she hasn't finished writing yet

• she hopes to finish writing this morning

We allowed the children to watch their favourite TV program yesterday, only after they... doing their school assignment.

• were finishing

• have finished

• finish

• had finished

They ... the bridge by this time next year.

• finish

• have finished

• had finished

• will have finihed

In recent years, some health practitioners ... to apply the terms well and wellness only to those people who are actively striving to maintain and to improve their health.

• begin

• began

• have begun

• had begun