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By this time next week the team of reporters and camera technicians covering the embezzling trial  will have been reporting from their location for more than ten days .

A. will have been reporting from their location for more than ten days

B. would have been reporting from their location for more than ten days

C. will be reporting from their locations for more than ten days

D. would have been reporting from the trial’s location for more than ten days

E. will have been reporting from the location of the trial for more than ten days

SS.56 · Answer

By this time next week the team of reporters and camera technicians covering the embezzling trial  will have been reporting from their location for more than ten days .

Present with respect to the future. So,   will is correct  .  Eliminate B, D 
Notice, ten days which means the period of time. So, '  will have been  ' is correct.  Eliminate   C 
The team is singular. So, no antecedent for the pronoun 'their' in A.  Eliminate

E,   perfect  .

A. will have been reporting from  their  location for more than ten days
B.  would  have been reporting from  their  location for more than ten days
C.  will be  reporting from  their  locations for more than ten days
D.  would  have been reporting from the trial’s location for more than ten days
E. will have been reporting from the location of the trial for more than ten days

RenB · Answer

Option A doesnt presents ambiguity about location. What is exactly meant by 'their' location? Grammatically it appears fine.
Option E addresses the ambiguity concern, thus the best option

walterwhite756 · Answer

Use of will have been is correct since we are talking about an action continuing for 10 days. Option A has "their location" which does not agree in number. Therefore most suitable answer is E.

achloes · Answer

We use  will have  when we are  looking ahead to a point in time in the future :
 By the end of the decade, scientists will have discovered a cure for influenza.
 
Or  looking back from the present :
 Look at the time. The match will have started.

We use  would have  as the  past tense form of will have :
 I phoned at six o'clock as I knew he would have got home by then.
 
Or in  conditionals  to talk about  something that did not happen :
 If it had been a little warmer, we would have gone for a swim.

cigarboy · Answer

I marked E as the answer.

Reason: 'will/would have been' should be used because the tense to be used in this sentence should tell us that an activity started in the past, continuing in present and will continue to happen by some fixed point in future.

So, I was in a confusion between D and E. E stood out because of trial's location in option D.

Can someone please tell what should we understand by 'trial's location' and is this even a legal construction?

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