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Maxim
I've been learning English for 5 years, but I've just got flabbergaster by the following question. How do I say "Tomorrow it will have been a year since I stopped taking alcohol"
USING FUTURE PERFECT CONTINUOUS?!
I know it may sound awkward, but I just need it to be grammatically correct.
20 maj 2022 08:21
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The future perfect continuous is not needed in your example at all. That said, since you acknowledged it might sound awkward or not natural, I presume you just want an example of the tense being used in the same context you provided:
"By this time tomorrow, I will have been refraining from consuming alcohol for a year."
20 maja 2022
That's a very good sentence in English and I fully understood it on first reading. I might say, "since I stopped drinking" instead of, "since I stopped taking alcohol." You don't really, "take alcohol" but, "drink alcohol" or, "consume alcohol." Another way of writing the sentence would be to say,
"Tomorrow is my first/on-year anniversary of not drinking."
"As of tomorrow, I won't have drank any alcohol for a year."
Your sentence is (I believe) grammatically correct.
20 maja 2022
but I've just got flabbergaster
I would say - I have just been flabergasted
Tomorrow it will be a year since I stopped drinking (possibly "using") alcohol
In Spanish they say "tomo (tomar - to take) una cervesa"
Whereas in USA I would say - I drink a beer
either way Cheers! Salud! Nostrovia
20 maja 2022
Hello,
Your sentence is grammatically correct, it does not need the future perfect continuous.
I hope this answers your question. If you’d like to practice speaking. I’d be happy to help you develop a study plan. Feel free to view my teaching profile and class offerings and send me a message if you think I can help you.
Regards.
20 maja 2022
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