Timeline for About the use of "pending" in this context
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| Jun 5, 2019 at 12:11 | comment | added | Norbert | ...which is meaningless. | |
| Jun 5, 2019 at 12:09 | comment | added | Norbert | pending here plays the role of a preposition, otherwise (an adjective) the sentence pending fully democratic, multiracial elections set for April 1994. wouldn't make much sense on its own because of the comma that sets it off from Apartheid legislation was officially repealed on 17 June 1991.The OED lists until there is as a synonym for pending, using it to reword the sentence one would obtain "Until there was a fully democratic, multiracial elections set for..., Apartheid legislation was officially repealed on... " . | |
| Jun 5, 2019 at 11:38 | comment | added | Mithical | @Norbert - I assume that April '94 was simply when the next elections were set, so that's when the new laws would fully go into effect (and, for instance, allow people of different skin colors to run for office). | |
| Jun 5, 2019 at 11:33 | comment | added | Norbert | Thank you, there is just one small thing I still couldn't comprehend, what was happening during the "waiting process"?, the use of pending should indicate some action was happening during a certain interval of time prior to the event mentioned right after pending, meaning: pending some event, some other event was happening before. Here, in our case, we have one action that had happened as quickly as one day, which is quite small compared to the time span between June 1991 and April 1994, it wasn't prolonged or am I missing something? | |
| Jun 5, 2019 at 3:35 | history | answered | Mithical | CC BY-SA 4.0 |