About the Perfect Infinitive

Ant_222   Friday, March 04, 2005, 19:19 GMT
Hello everybody!

Can you tell me is this sentence ok:
"He is expected to have finished the work by tomorrow"?
Or this is the only correct version:

"He is expected to finish the work by tomorrow"...

I think, but not sure, that the second is correct, in contrast to the first.
D   Friday, March 04, 2005, 19:31 GMT
Both of those sentences are correct. The shorter one
is more common in speech.
Jo   Friday, March 04, 2005, 22:00 GMT
He is expected to have his work finished by tomorrow

also sound good
Ant_222   Sunday, March 06, 2005, 06:55 GMT
Thanks