Timeline for Understanding Future-in-the-past time
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Jun 24, 2014 at 13:12 | comment | added | michelle | @Dmitry, Future-in-the-past is the only way I've seen it referred to, but honestly, most native speakers would not know a name for it. | |
Jun 24, 2014 at 10:12 | comment | added | Lucian Sava | @Max, thank you, I thought so but I wasn’t hundred percent sure. | |
Jun 24, 2014 at 9:55 | comment | added | Max | @LucianSava: the source seems to be wrong. You can definitely say something like "He said he would go to the dentist, but I don't know if he went yet." | |
Jun 24, 2014 at 7:15 | comment | added | Lucian Sava | @michelle, that’s intriguing for me! This source: englishpage.com/verbpage/futureinpast.html puzzles me too (on time diagram the action is finished before present) but on the other hand I can understand your: “the appointment could have already occurred, or it could still be in the future”. I wonder if the source could be wrong? | |
Jun 24, 2014 at 6:11 | vote | accept | Dmitrii Bundin | ||
Jun 24, 2014 at 6:09 | comment | added | Dmitrii Bundin | Thanks for your answer. But I have one more doubt. Does native speakers call that time-construction exactly future, relative to the past instead of future-in-the-past? I want to clarify that because in any sources which I used this time-construction names future-in-the-past | |
Jun 24, 2014 at 5:26 | history | answered | michelle | CC BY-SA 3.0 |