Re: Aspects of English Grammar
| From: | H. S. Teoh <hsteoh@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, March 13, 2004, 4:25 |
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On Fri, Mar 12, 2004 at 10:07:57PM -0600, Nik Taylor 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.
[snip]
To this L2 speaker, that sounds decidedly weird. (And I'm known for coming
up with weird ways of saying things. Such as, "it's a quarter to half
past, let's go in." :-P)
T
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