Ask me a question for the podcast?LOOKING BACK FROM A POINT IN THE FUTURE - FUTURE PERFECTI have studied / I have been studying English for/since...(from the past to the present)Next September, I will have studied / been studying English for ten years(from the past to a moment in the futureI will have had this car for fifteen years next month.I will have lived / been living in Seville for twenty-five yearsThis summer I will have been working for three years at the car factory.The structure is the same for other verbs that use modal auxiliary verbsI should study nowI should have studied in the past (but I didn't)We call this the perfect infinitive.I could work in the car factoryI could have worked in the car factory (but I didn't)I might buy that sweater I saw in the shop window.I might have bought that sweater I saw in the shop window. (but I didn't)(Georgia on my Mind cover by M.A. Bilbrough)Read the story transcript at my website: https://www.practisingenglish.com/podcast-235.htmMy NEW book: "B1 English Vocabulary Builder - 22 Short Stories for Learning the Words and Phrases Students Need to Pass the B1 Exam" is now available! This book gives the learner enough vocabulary to pass any B1 exam (special help for Cambridge exams).To about my book, click here (you can access it from any Amazon platform):https://amzn.to/46AVFe9 Learners studying towards B2 level will be interested in my B1 to B2 reader: The Tudor Conspiracy (includes audio version) https://amzn.to/4gPsj0i For very young learners (from 8-10), I recommend my picture reader book for children learning A1 to A2 English. It comes with a fully dramatised audio version: https://amzn.to/46TCWvv At https://www.practisingenglish.com/ I offer learners of intermediate-level English, free grammar help and exercises and other English learning pages.https://www.practisingenglish.com/Be back soon with another podcast!Mike Bilbrough (Secondary school English teacher and Doctor in English philology)

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