I encountered this sentence and the word "before" disappointed me. Can you explain why there is the future tense and this word in the end. If the meaning of "before" is "after your back or in the past" it can't be with future tense. The sentence: Here's some really nice cheese that I don't think you will have tasted before. Thanks.
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True, this is confusing. But before means in the past, just as you expect. The will in there is the hard part. It is not showing the future. – GEdgar Jul 08 '19 at 12:08
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It's one of those sentences that make perfect sense to a native speaker but are hard to explain. The sense is "When you taste the cheese, I think you will find that it is a kind that you have not tasted before [now]. – Kate Bunting Jul 08 '19 at 12:11
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No modal verb can mean only one thing in English, including will. Here it means probability not futurity. See the linked duplicate. – tchrist Jul 08 '19 at 12:13
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There is no future tense in the sentence to begin with. Will is the present tense. English does not have a future tense. Yes, "will" can sometimes refer to the future. But so can "am". That alone is not sufficient to assume that "am" is always in the future tense. You are going to run into huge problems if you do that. So don't. Don't assume it about "am", and don't assume it about "will". – RegDwigнt Jul 08 '19 at 13:44