What does the second paragraph mean by using Present Perfect?
Julia will start the afternoon at two with her session on troubleshooting. I'm sure participants will come up with plenty of questions about that.
Then at three fifteen we've got the two parallel sessions.
They can choose the presentation 'Management Models', which will be aimed mostly at the less experienced participants, but there'll be a workshop at the same time on 'Succession Planning'
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If the verb 'will' was added before the word 'have', would the sentence be better?
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I can't see a present perfect in this text. If you're referring to "we've got", that's a simple present - a more informal/natural variant on "we have".
If you wanted to insert "will', you'd need to lose the "got". This would change the tense to a future "We'll have". This is also possible, but it sounds a little bit as though the speaker is deciding at the moment of speaking. The present tense ( we've got ) is more natural, because it suggests that the programme has already been fixed.
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If you mean to say: 'We will have got the two parallel sessions' - then no, this would be incorrect.
You should either say: We've got the two parallel sessions OR We will have the two parallel sessions.
Hope that helps!
Raji
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