Please look at the sentence below
Suppose, on Friday, my uncle said, "I have sent you a dictionary, you will have received it by Monday." in which does "you will have received it by Monday." mean that the book can be delivered even on Monday and, technically, not later than midnight. Am I right? Or should it be strictly before Monday?
Also,
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I have sent you a dictionary, you will have received it by Monday.
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I have sent you a dictionary, you will receive it by Monday.
Do the two sentences convey the same meaning and the difference is just of the point of view. #1 looks at future from now and #2 looks at the past from future. Right?
Thanks.
Best Answer
"By Monday" technically means "before Monday" – that is, on or before 23:59:59.9(9) on Sunday night. However, the actual definition can be less strict. In the context of business, it may be delivered on Monday before business hours (most likely before 09:00, although it can earlier or later in some places).
There is no real difference between sentences #1 and #2 in your question, although I would expect that sentence #2:
Will be heard more often than sentence #1.
The sentences you have used should use a period or include a conjunction:
The answer by Cookie Monster includes a common way of saying this, but it is different. "You will get it this Monday" means "it will arrive on Monday" and does not mean that it may arrive before Monday, or that it will arrive before Monday. A way of phrasing your sentence in a manner similar to that used by Cookie Monster, while retaining the same meaning, would be:
You could also say:
You may also be interested in this resource for the difference between the tenses: