Cytat: Marzip
If they’re following their schedule, they will have arrived yesterday. - Jeżeli przestrzegają rozkładu, to już wczoraj przyjechali.
Czy dobrze rozumiem te zdanie?
PS Czy można też powiedzieć: "If they're following their schedule they must have arrived yesterday."
" If they're following their schedule, they arrived yesterday."
If they’re following their schedule, they will have arrived yesterday = If they’re following their schedule, they must have arrived yesterday. yesterday.
Both of them convey a conclusion drawn about a past circumstance.
The same sense of
will shows when a deduction is voiced about a present circumstance:
His name is Helmut Schmidt, you say? He will be German then.
His name was Helmut Schmidt, you say? He will have been German then.