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I have as good as promise to promote him. (page 430, A Comprehensive English Grammar (I), by Zhang Daozhen and Wen Zhida)
What does the above sentence mean?
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Hi I would put a 'd' at the end of 'promise': - I have as good as promised to promote him. It means that I may not have exactly, definitely or explicitly said that I would promote him. Maybe I didn't say it in quite that way.
- Hi I would put a 'd' at the end of 'promise': - I have as good as promised to promote him.
- It means that I may not have exactly, definitely or explicitly said that I would promote him.
- Maybe I didn't say it in quite that way.
- But everything I said would have made him think that I promised to promote him.
- If, at the end, he thought I'd said that, he's right.
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I would put a 'd' at the end of 'promise':
- I have as good as promised to promote him.
It means that I may not have exactly, definitely or explicitly said that I would promote him. Maybe I didn't say it in quite that way. But everything I said would have made him think that I promised to promote him. If, at the end, he thought I'd said that, he's right. I as good as sa
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