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By the time the chief financial officer arrived at the executive boardroom tomorrow morning, the auditing team ___ the entire portfolio review for over three hours, rendering all previous discrepancies entirely obsolete.
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In advanced English grammar, when a future time clause (introduced by 'by the time' or 'when') specifies a point in the future, an action continuing up to that point requires the future perfect continuous tense. However, stative verbs or accomplishment verbs emphasizing a completed result rather than an ongoing duration take the future perfect simple tense. Here, 'completed' functions to denote an action that will be finished prior to a specific moment in the future. For an in-depth understanding of verb aspects and temporal relationships, consult the Wikipedia Reference on future time markers.
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