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TeacherJapan Posted 10 years ago
Grammar

from one's point of view

Is it possible to say "from the future point of view?"
  

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Could you give the whole sentence?

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Could you give the whole sentence?
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People have begun to use the adjective "global" to think about various problems from the future point of view.
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I've never heard anyone say that.
I hear 'global' used to mean world-wide.

Clive
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teacherJapanPeople have begun to use the adjective "global" to think about various problems from the future point of view.
I think that "from the future point of view" is borderline, but the sentence as a whole is made harder to judge or correct because, as Clive suggests, what it seems to be saying is apparently not true.
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teacherJapan Is it possible to say "from the future point of view?"
I don't see why not. I use it myself when explaining the future perfect tense.

When we use the future perfect, as in "He will have finished the novel by bedtime", we think of the finishing of the novel as already past, but from the future point of view.

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teacherJapan the future point of view.
Semantically, the future point of view is something anticipated, i.e. an idea, thought, etc., to be taken into consideration in the future.
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Thank you very much everyone.
Actually, that was a translation exercise, so all I did was translate Japanese into English, but
it's good to know that what the sentence says is dubious. :-)

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