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Wow! The phrase above is complicated! It's an example of the future perfect tense. Here are guides to those complicated future and past tenses.

Future Perfect Tense
Future Perfect Continuous Tense
Future Continuous Tense
Past Perfect Tense
Past Perfect Continuous Tense

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September 24, 2008 at 11:51 am
(7) RaduBurdujan :

I met such a sentence. (an exercise from an English textbook) There is no wider context, just a sentence from the exercise.

I should have been playing the drum.

Some say it is Future Perfect Continuous in the Past, others say it is Conditional Perfect Continuous.
Can you tell me what it is?
Future in the Past and Conditional are used in Compound Sentences, but here is a Simple Sentence.

September 24, 2008 at 1:41 pm
(8) esl :

This is the conditional perfect continuous which would be used for a past situation. I imagine there is some context for this sentence in the surrounding text – or at least there should be. Something like:

My friends were having a great time playing through some songs together. I was in a bad mood so I didn’t join in. I should have been playing the drum.

June 6, 2009 at 10:32 pm
(9) chau :

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