Japan
A question about tense, in an exercice I was asked several times : It's about going to Japan, if you have ever been there, if you would have gone, etc, you must find the right tense. And here comes the one : "by the time you recieve my letter, I (to go) to Japan. Sometimes I answered "I will have gone" which is the right answer for gg, but I always hesitate and sometimes I wrote "I will be gone". I would like to know if the latter is correct. For me it is, but the correction doesn't explain my answer, it just says that we need the future perfect tense, which is made with the auxiliary 'will have' + past participle. Ok. but I'm quite sure that "I will be gone" is a correct sentence, maybe it is inadequate here, maybe the sense is different ? Like : je serai allé au Japon / je serai parti pour le Japon ? Someone has a clue ? And, by the way, I have never been to Japan ;)
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6 Dec. 2013