Breakdown of Para octubre, no solo habré redactado el informe, sino que también habré preparado la entrega.
para
for / in order to (+ infinitive) / by (a deadline)
también
also, too
no
no / not
que
that (relative pronoun, conjunction)
octubre
October
el informe
the report
preparar
to prepare
solo
only
haber
to have (auxiliary)
sino
but (but rather)
redactar
to draft
la entrega
the delivery
Questions & Answers about Para octubre, no solo habré redactado el informe, sino que también habré preparado la entrega.
Why do we use Para octubre instead of Por octubre to say 'By October'?
When talking about a deadline or a specific point in the future by which an action will be completed, Spanish uses para. This goes hand-in-hand with the Future Perfect tense. If you said por octubre, it would mean something more vague like 'around October'.
How do habré redactado and habré preparado translate to 'will have drafted' and 'will have prepared'?
These verbs are in the Future Perfect tense, which is the main focus of this lesson. To form it, you take the future tense of the helping verb haber (here, habré for 'I will have') and add the past participle of your main verb (redactado, preparado). It is used to talk about things that will already be finished before a certain deadline.
Why does the sentence use sino que instead of pero for 'but'?
When you have a negative statement (like no solo) followed by a contrasting positive statement, you use sino instead of pero. We add que to make it sino que because the phrase that follows contains a conjugated verb (habré preparado). If there were no conjugated verb after it, you would just use sino.
Could I use escrito instead of redactado here?
Yes, you could say habré escrito (I will have written), but redactado (from redactar) is slightly more specific. It means to draft, compose, or write up a formal document, which fits perfectly with a business word like informe (report).
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