Please tell me what the difference between the following sentences is
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Tomorrow it will be ten years since we moved in.
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Tomorrow it will have been ten years since we moved in.
Thank you.
Learn English – It will be or it will have been
future-perfectfuture-timetense
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Best Answer
There is little difference in meaning. There is a slight difference in perspective.
This sentence has a slightly forward-looking perspective, as if I'm thinking about the future with my wife.
Again, similar meaning, but the use of the perfect has a slightly backward-looking perspective, as if I'm considering all that time we spent together.
Neither is more correct than the other, and neither is in any way negative (unless I say it in a way that seems sarcastic or disparaging). These are just two ways to say the same thing but with a subtle difference in nuance.