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Pkr Posted 16 years ago
Grammar
As best friends will do, the five of us spent every waking hour together.
What's the time relationship between the subordinate clause and main clause in the following sentence? Is it possible there is none in this sentence and the tense in each clause references to speech time only?
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As best friends will do, the five of us spent every waking hour together.
Thank you.
From: http://www.bookpage.com/0606bp/nonfiction/and_you_know.html
As best friends will do, the five of us spent every waking hour together.
Thank you.
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As best friends will do expresses a universal truth, a habitual action. The five of us spent every waking hour together refers to a single action that occurred in the past. CB
- As best friends will do expresses a universal truth, a habitual action.
- The five of us spent every waking hour together refers to a single action that occurred in the past.
- CB
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As best friends will do expresses a universal truth, a habitual action. The five of us spent every waking hour together refers to a single action that occurred in the past.
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I take it that you mean there is no time relationship between the two clauses. Thanks for your reply
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