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Re: Aspects of English Grammar

From:H. S. Teoh <hsteoh@...>
Date:Saturday, March 13, 2004, 4:25
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 -- In a world without fences, who needs Windows and Gates? -- Christian Surchi

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