Tiger’s story isn’t over quite yet. President Donald Trump has announced on Twitter that he plans to award the golfer with the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Add a comment
|
1 Answer
In this context and tense, we use "plans" to show that plan is still in motion. If you were to replace the word with the past tense "planned" in your example sentence it would imply that the president had planned to do something but that the plan was no longer in action.
However, you could say:
President Donald Trump has announced on Twitter that he has planned to award the golfer with the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Saying "has planned" implies that the plan has been made in the past but is still to be executed in the future.
answered Apr 30, 2019 at 12:40
-
Thank you very much for your input. Is it possible to say “he is planning” for “he plans”? Commented May 7, 2019 at 23:25
-
@LongPham Yes! "Donald Trump has announced on twitter that he is planning to award the golfer..." would essentially mean the same as "he plans" because the plans are ongoing. Commented May 8, 2019 at 11:24