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Re: erg/abs; verbs.

From:Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...>
Date:Tuesday, March 14, 2000, 23:04
Mangiat wrote:
> Surely not a good example: here's one better(?): > > Tonight I'm going to the cinema - > > the structure is the present continuous, but what I'm describing is a future > action (is it right? If not, my English teacher has thaught me false things!
Ah, okay. That's a perfectly legal sentence, but given out of context, "I'm going" would be interpreted as present, it usually requires a time-expression like "tonight" or "tomorrow" to refer to future events. -- "If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore, and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God!" - Ralph Waldo Emerson ICQ: 18656696 AIM Screen-Name: NikTailor