Timeline for Usage of "He was to XXX"
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8 events
| when toggle format | what | by | license | comment | |
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| Feb 29, 2016 at 10:41 | comment | added | Colin Fine | @Ustanak: "Acceptable" is a social judgment, and I am not interested in those. I believe that people do use it in that way; I think it is clearer to use b). | |
| Feb 29, 2016 at 1:05 | comment | added | Schwale | @ColinFine Then my gut feeling was right. However, is it acceptable to use a) anyway? | |
| Feb 28, 2016 at 22:16 | comment | added | Schwale | @user3169 Oh, I must've been tripped. That's right. | |
| Feb 28, 2016 at 21:42 | comment | added | Colin Fine | Actually, now I think of it, I can image a) being used. I can say "I'm speaking at the meeting tomorrow" because I intend to, not knowing whether something might cause this not to happen. In the same way, if the temporal focus is before he got ill, I might say "He was speaking at the meeting" in the same sense. | |
| Feb 28, 2016 at 21:16 | comment | added | user3169 | @Ustanak How can you be speaking and cancel your speech at the same time? Without other context, "cancel" is assumed to refer to the speech. | |
| Feb 28, 2016 at 19:27 | comment | added | Schwale | Answer a) ticks my ears. Can't it be used? | |
| Feb 28, 2016 at 18:58 | vote | accept | CYC | ||
| Feb 28, 2016 at 18:48 | history | answered | Colin Fine | CC BY-SA 3.0 |