What's the right tense? (English)?

Question

"i'll end up dying alone in my rental apartment some time around 2074 and there will be no one to arrange me a funeral - although i ---->will have lost maybe even 20 pounds since i died<----"

The ending is tricky. (:

Losing those pounds will happen *while* i'm dead (rotting, shrinking, getting eaten by my ferrets).

Rental, because, i *could* own the flat, right? But i don't. Thus the 'rental'.
Does it make sense? (:

Answer 1

Yeah, that's the correct tense, future perfect.

Regarding the posting above by Chris, "rental apartment" is American English (more commonly just "apartment" but you can say "rental apartment"). "Flat" is a British expression. Basically, the things he noted as being a problem are differences between British and American dialects, although I'm pretty sure "to die alone" is considered grammatical in British usage as well. "To die lonely" actually has a different meaning from "to die alone." They are not interchangeable.

Answer 2

Firstly, I have to point out three things:

1. "rental apartment" isn t commonly used in English, you should rather call it a "flat"
2. "dying alone": I m sure you meant: "dying lonely"
3. "some time around": it s spelt "sometime around"

(So there you go:

I ll probably end up dying lonely in my flat sometime around 2074 and there won t be anybody to arrange my funeral- even if I might have lost twenty pounds till then.
<<< This points out that despite of losing twenty pounds till then you will still die lonely etc... so it implies that you re having weight issues... )

PS!!!:

I ve just seen your comment and I guess you want to express that as you re such a lonely person, they ll find you a long time after your death so that you re already kind of rotten....

So accordingly to your comment, you want to express the following:

"I ll probably end up dying lonely in my flat sometime around 2074 and there won t be anybody to arrange my funeral- they certainly won t find me until my body has lost twenty pounds due to corpse decay."
;-)

@lastuntaken:

Accordingly to the context, it s evident that she wants to point out that- by the time she dies- it s likely that she doesn t have friends or a family....!
She affirms that by telling that it ll take a long while until she s found (corpse decay etc).

So that s why you need to use "dying lonely" here..... it s an expression in English...
IF you used "dying alone", it could just mean that there s nobody around (in the room etc) when she dies and this so doesn t stress what she tries to point out....

Besides that, I agree that "flat" is the appropriate British term for an apartment which you rent BUT even in American English, you d use "apartment" instead of "rental apartment".

Furthermore, even in American English, it s "sometime around" and NOT "some time around"

Answer 3

"i'll end up dying alone in my rental apartment some time around 2074 and there will be no one to arrange my funeral - although i will maybe even have lost 20 pounds the day i die

Answer 4

Easiest by far is to avoid a verb there entirely "although I will have lost maybe even 20 pounds after my death".

If you must have the verb "die", I think "since I'd died". I'm not even sure.

Answer 5

the first part is the future tense--the last part is future perfect-- fomed with the future tense and the past participle of the verb...hope this helps