Notes: future perfect
The following sentences are not in future perfectThe aspect expressing completion. E.g.: He’s finished university., although they contain the same form. They express assumption about a past eventA general term expressing that somebody or something does something or that something happens. E.g.: An apple fell on Isaac’s head..
You won't have heard the news that she's been accepted. (= I don't suppose you have heard the news.)
Ingrid joined our team last summer so many of you will have met her already.
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