Timeline for Which sentence is most appropriate? "Next year Anny and I {will have been / will be} married for 25 years"
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| Jun 20, 2017 at 22:49 | comment | added | Ben Kovitz | When people say that English has no future tense, or has no tenses at all, they're not speaking common English, they're speaking linguistics jargon. In the everyday English of nonspecialists, "I will go to the store tomorrow" is said to be in the future tense. That's what the phrase "future tense" means in English. Even if you want to talk technically, you can still reasonably say "English forms its future tense not by inflection but with a modal auxiliary construction, like 'will' or 'going to'." Not that I would recommend even that level of technicality for most questions on ELL. | |
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| Jun 12, 2017 at 21:05 | comment | added | P. E. Dant Reinstate Monica | The change at least places the answer more in agreement with modern grammers regarding tense. | |
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| Jun 12, 2017 at 20:44 | comment | added | P. E. Dant Reinstate Monica | Oh, there are hundreds of discussions! Some say, and quite convincingly (see Lawler) that English has no tenses at all! Still, we need ways to describe how English deals with time, and some grammarians talk about aspect, which seems to be a satisfying way of accurately describing things. | |
| Jun 12, 2017 at 20:38 | comment | added | fixer1234 | @P.E.Dant, there is a discussion of that here. My understanding is that while there isn't actually a future tense, future oriented phrases based on will/shall are labelled future simple, future progressive, future perfect, and future perfect progressive. I meant "future" here in a generic sense. What's the appropriate way to phrase that? | |
| Jun 12, 2017 at 20:22 | comment | added | P. E. Dant Reinstate Monica | English has no future tense. | |
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| Jun 10, 2017 at 12:41 | history | answered | fixer1234 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |