Timeline for Next month, I _______ John for 20 years
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| May 25, 2022 at 12:44 | comment | added | EllieK | @Kirt - In addition to considering archaic biblical definitions, doth ye also speake in the Olde English of King James? Lest ye encounter another speaker? Olde English is just another dialect. Just as important as any other. | |
| May 24, 2022 at 20:45 | comment | added | Andy | @mbomb007 Given that the Bible will could have used many prophetic future tenses I'm not sure it's an exhaustive compendium. | |
| May 24, 2022 at 19:03 | comment | added | mbomb007 | @Kirt I might be wrong, but I think TonyK meant that its never used in that tense in the Bible itself. | |
| May 24, 2022 at 14:50 | comment | added | Kirt | @TonyK "Never" is a strong claim. Cf., "As of this writing, to quote the Bible, we have been knowing each other for twelve years as a couple, and we continually reach new levels of showing each other what love is." in What's wrong with America | |
| May 24, 2022 at 14:36 | comment | added | Kirt | @Barmar It is certainly almost never used, which is why I say it is extremely unlikely to be the meaning the exam intended. I am simply pointing out that it is a grammatically correct idiomatic construction, since the other answers say that it is not. | |
| May 24, 2022 at 14:15 | comment | added | Barmar | This sense is also considered archaic, almost never used except in the Bible unless you add the "in the biblical sense" qualifier. | |
| May 24, 2022 at 10:54 | comment | added | TonyK | No, that doesn't work at all. "We have been knowing each other ever since": even in the Biblical sense, "know" is never used in the (present or past or past perfect) continuous. | |
| May 24, 2022 at 7:09 | history | answered | Kirt | CC BY-SA 4.0 |