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Chivalry Posted 15 years ago
Vocabulary

Anybody look this sentence please?

"The official cause of death will not be available for several weeks, when toxicology reports and other tests are final, Garavaglia said."

Here the preposition "for" caueses a little confusion in me.

I think the sentence should be phrased as "The official cause of death wil not be available UNTIL several weeks later.",

am I right?
  

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chivalry The official cause of death will not be available for several weeks The expression is natural and common. I take it as " . .

— Avangi

  • chivalry The official cause of death will not be available for several weeks The expression is natural and common.
  • I take it as " .
  • .
  • " It won't be available this week.
  • It won't be available next week.
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chivalryThe official cause of death will not be available for several weeks
The expression is natural and common.
I take it as " . . . . will not be available during the following period of several weeks' duration."

It won't be available this week. It won't be available next week. It probably won't be available the week after that.
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Avangi
chivalryThe official cause of death will not be available for several weeks
The expression is natural and common.I take it as " . . . . will not be available during the following period of several weeks' duration." It won't be available this week. It won't be available next week. It probably won't be available the week after th
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chivalryThe official cause of death wil not be available UNTIL several weeks later.
This doesn't work for me. It's a little tricky and hard to explain.
You can use it in the past:

He didn't figure it out until several weeks later. We're talking about something which has already happened.

It won't be ava
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Avangi
chivalryThe official cause of death wil not be available UNTIL several weeks later.
This doesn't work for me. It's a little tricky and hard to explain.You can use it in the past:He didn't figure it out until several weeks later. We're talking about something which has already happened. It won't be available until several weeks
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chivalryThe official cause of death wil not be available UNTIL several weeks later.
I shouldn't beat a dead horse, but it just occurred to me that this can work in the "historical present," which is really talking about the past. If you're not acquainted with it, it might seem a bit strange.

I like to think of it as a narration which accompanies a mo
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