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Anonymous  #521582  Sun, 01 Jun 08 10:53 AM

Hi,

Please correct this.

My plan:

I am going to start working on my homework right after coming from school at 7 p.m. Then, I will have eaten my dinner and have played tennis for a while. My uncle is scheduled to come home at 8 p.m. and when he comes home as scheduled, I will be doing my homework since it will take more then an hour but less than two hours to complete my homework. When my aunt comes home at 9:30 p.m., I will probably have finished my homework and probably rocking on my lazy chair while humming my favorite tunes listening to the very song on a CD player from which the tunes came.     

  
Clive  #521617  Sun, 01 Jun 08 01:21 PM

Hi,

Please correct this.

My plan:

I am going to start working on my homework right after coming from school at 7 p.m. Then, I will have eaten my dinner and have played tennis for a while. My uncle is scheduled to come home at 8 p.m. and when he comes home as scheduled, I will be doing my homework since it will take more then an hour but less than two hours to complete my homework. When my aunt comes home at 9:30 p.m., I will probably have finished my homework and probably rocking on my lazy chair while humming my favorite tunes listening to the very song on a CD player from which the tunes came.  

I am going to start working on my homework right after coming from school at 7 p.m.

Then, I will have eaten my dinner and have played tennis for a while. The Present Perfect makes it sound like you did this before 7pm. Is that what you mean? If so, say 'By then . . .  '.  When did you do these things? You came right home after school, didn't you?  

My uncle is scheduled to come home at 8 p.m. and when he comes home as scheduled, I will be doing my homework since it will take more then an hour but less than two hours to complete my homework. When my aunt comes home at 9:30 p.m., I will probably have finished my homework and will probably be rocking on my lazy chair while humming my favorite tunes and listening to the very song on a CD player from which the tunes came.    I don't understand this last phrase that I've underlined.

Best wishes, Clive 

   

  
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Anonymous  #521846  Mon, 02 Jun 08 01:31 AM

Thank you, Clive, for your help..

You wrote:

Then, I will have eaten my dinner and have played tennis for a while. The Present Perfect makes it sound like you did this before 7pm. Is that what you mean? If so, say 'By then . . .  '.  When did you do these things? You came right home after school, didn't you?  Yes, the actions should happened after my coming from school at 7 p.m. How should I word the next sentences if they came after my coming from school? 

My uncle is scheduled to come home at 8 p.m. and when he comes home as scheduled, I will be doing my homework since it will take more then an hour but less than two hours to complete my homework. When my aunt comes home at 9:30 p.m., I will probably have finished my homework and will probably be rocking on my lazy chair while humming my favorite tunes and listening to the very song on a CD player from which the tunes came.    I don't understand this last phrase that I've underlined. It might have been too long a sentence: I used the adjective 'very' to intimate the same occurance or ownership like "It is a song named "***" and it was a very song I listened to when I was here this very place last year"

  
Clive  #521864  Mon, 02 Jun 08 03:39 AM
Hi again,

You wrote:

Then, I will have eaten my dinner and have played tennis for a while. The Present Perfect makes it sound like you did this before 7pm. Is that what you mean? If so, say 'By then . . .  '.  When did you do these things? You came right home after school, didn't you?  Yes, the actions should happened after my coming from school at 7 p.m. How should I word the next sentences if they came after my coming from school? Just use Simple Past, ie say 'Then I will eat my dinner and play tennis for a while'. The word 'then' makes the sequence of events clear.

My uncle is scheduled to come home at 8 p.m. and when he comes home as scheduled, I will be doing my homework since it will take more then an hour but less than two hours to complete my homework. When my aunt comes home at 9:30 p.m., I will probably have finished my homework and will probably be rocking on my lazy chair while humming my favorite tunes and listening to the very song on a CD player from which the tunes came.    I don't understand this last phrase that I've underlined. It might have been too long a sentence: I used the adjective 'very' to intimate the same occurance or ownership like "It is a song named "***" and it was a very song I listened to when I was here this very place last year" Then say '. .  and listening to the very ( or very same ) song I listened to when I was here last year', or some similar phrasing.

Best wishes, Clive

  
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