Timeline for Meaning of a sentence with 'was to'
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| Jun 3, 2016 at 23:34 | vote | accept | yubraj | ||
| May 31, 2016 at 19:09 | comment | added | Colin Fine | But it can also be a purely historical function. Suppose somebody met Princess Elizabeth (of the UK) in, say, 1935, when she was 11 years old. Nobody then had any idea that she might become the Queen, let alone that this was her 'destiny': it was only when her uncle abdicated in 1936 that her father became King, and she became the heir presumptive. But writing now there's nothing wrong with referring to her as "a girl who was to become a queen". | |
| May 31, 2016 at 15:54 | history | answered | Azami | CC BY-SA 3.0 |