lary301254M7 wrote:
What is the difference in meaning between "will have left" and "will leave"?
I narrowed it down to (C) and (D) and thought "will leave" was the better choice and selected (D).
Not 100% sure about the meaning.
Hello
lary301254M7,
I will be happy to help you with this one.
Will have left is a future perfect tense verb. This verb tense is used to refer to an action that is expected to take place before a particular time in the future. For exampe:
I will have finished my project by end of this month.
Will leave is simple future tense verb. This verb tense is used to present an event that will take place in the future. For example:
I will finish my project tomorrow.
Now let's see usage of which verb tense make sense in the context of this official sentence.
This sentence says that according to a prediction, a good number of executives belonging to a particular ethnicity will do something within the next ten years.
So in this part of the the sentence, the author talks about an event that will take place over the period of ten years. We do not have any particular point in time before which this action will be completed.
Hence, use of future perfect tense verb
will have left is not correct here.
Since the sentence intends to present an event that will take place in future use of simple future tense verb
will leave is correct.
Now let's talk about the meaning of the sentence.The sentence intends to say that per a prediction, a good number of executives belonging to a particular ethnicity will leave their corporate jobs within the next ten years to start their own business. This situation has been compared to a situation in the present. In the present, many engineers and computer experts belonging to the same ethnicity have already done so, i. e., they have already left their jobs to start their own business.
Hope this helps.
Thanks.
Shraddha
In case of past perfect tense we consider a statement such as "by 1982 John had cleared his doctoral program" correct since we say that John had cleared the program had happened before 1982 end. So on similar lines the statement "over ten years" can convey that executive will have left the job before the completion of these 10 years?