Re: Aspects of English Grammar
| From: | Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, March 14, 2004, 15:28 |
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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]
It sounds perfectly natural to me, and I'm also a native speaker.
I'm sure I've used exactly that construct zillions of times in my
everyday speech.
-Mark
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