A tense+mood I love is in Spanish, and it's the opposite of prophetic perfect: the future perfect (of subjunctive mood). It's meant for hypothetical situations

A tense+mood I love is in Spanish, and it's the opposite of prophetic perfect: the future perfect (of subjunctive mood). It's meant for hypothetical situations finished at some point in the past from the time referenced (but in the future from now). It's normally relegated to legal texts nowadays, but can be seen in contemporary literature every now and then. "that who will have committed... will be punished..." would be an equivalent-ish construction in English. http://verbflex.com/articles/spanish/spanish-future-perfect-subjunctive/ http://verbflex.com/articles/spanish/spanish-future-perfect-...