Re: Tense and aspect (was: savoir-connaître)
| From: | Philip Newton <philip.newton@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, December 28, 2004, 16:56 |
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On Tue, 28 Dec 2004 09:50:45 -0500, Mark Reed <markjreed@...> wrote:
> This is not the only possibility; "Tomorrow I go to work" could also
> be interpreted as "Tomorrow, I will begin my task." or similar; in
> that case, "to work" is an infinitive again, but it's still not the
> "going to" future. It's just the present tense verb being used to
> indicate future action, which happens all the time in English.
You think so? It feels like a noun to me.
The German equivalent, "Morgen gehe ich ans Werk" certainly uses a noun.
Cheers,
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Philip Newton <philip.newton@...>
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