Re: "About to" aspect
| From: | /Joe Mondello <rugpretzel@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, November 9, 1998, 23:42 |
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In a message dated 11/9/98 6:37:57 PM Eastern Standard Time, fortytwo@UFL.EDU
writes:
> > What is the proper name for an aspect indicating that an action has not
yet
> > begun or is about to begin?
>
> That would be a tense, immediate future, if I understand your question
> properly.
Well, In the way in which i use it [corresondent to the perfective] it can
occur in any tense, for example:
I was about to tell her. . .
therefore i assumed it was aspective.
Pacs precs
Joe Mondello