Timeline for Do I use the past simple or the present perfect after "I've been meaning" as in "I've been meaning to do something, but I've always forgotten/forgot"?
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| Jul 7, 2021 at 14:26 | comment | added | Lambie | Always the same question in a new form, over and over and over. I meant to, I was meaning to, I've been meaning to, I had meant to, I mean to, etc. | |
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| Jun 7, 2021 at 4:51 | answer | added | Samuel Muldoon | timeline score: -1 | |
| May 19, 2021 at 4:28 | comment | added | A. B. | Duplicate of this? ell.stackexchange.com/questions/139428/… Or, at any rate, that might be some use. | |
| May 12, 2021 at 15:29 | comment | added | FumbleFingers | Syntactically, both are fine. But idiomatically, many native speakers would abandon the Perfect verb form after the first use, since repeated instances can start to get cumbersome. And this native speaker probably wouldn't even start: I always meant to watch it, but I forgot about it until now. Semantically, I think there's a bit of a problem with Present Perfect for the intention to watch anyway - it strongly implies still intending to watch, right up until time of speaking, which doesn't really make sense if you've forgotten about [the movie? the intention?] anyway. | |
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