Re: Aspects of English Grammar

Maybe it is in English, although in French it looks
rather natural:
Demain matin, a la meme heure, je serai sur le point
de prendre le train pour Madrid.
or:
dans douze mois, je serai sur le point de prendre ma
retraite (in 12 months, I'll be about to retire)

As I can easily understand the idea, I can't see why
it couldn't be expressed, one way or another, in
English.

--- Nik Taylor <yonjuuni@...> wrote:
> Philippe Caquant wrote:
> >
> > "To be about to" is possible in the future tense:
> > Tomorrow morning, at the same time, I'll be about
> to
> > take the train to Madrid...
>
> To this native speaker, that sounds, at best, only
> semi-gramatical.
>

=====
Philippe Caquant

"He thought he saw a Rattlesnake / That questioned him in Greek: / He looked
again, and found it was / The Middle of Next Week. / "The one thing I regret',
he said, / "Is that it cannot speak !' " (Lewis Carroll)

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