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Anonymous Posted 16 years ago
Grammar

Future from past

It was the loss of revenue from declines in tourism that in 1935 led the Saudi authorities granting a concession for oil exploration to the company that would later be known by the name of Aramco.

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It was the loss of revenue from declines in tourism that in 1935 led the Saudi authorities’ granting a concession for oil exploration to the company that later to be known as Aramco.

Can "to be"... be used to predict future from the Past?

what is the difference between :

later to be known as Aramco. Vs that would later be known by the name of Aramco.
  

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Anonymous what is the difference between : that would later be known by the name of Aramco. / that later to be known as Aramco . The difference is that the second version of your sentence is incorrect.

  • Anonymous what is the difference between : that would later be known by the name of Aramco.
  • / that later to be known as Aramco .
  • The difference is that the second version of your sentence is incorrect.
  • The word 'that' introduces a relative clause.
  • The clause is grammatically incorrect with only a to-infinitive in it.
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Anonymouswhat is the difference between :
that would later be known by the name of Aramco. / that later to be known as Aramco.

The difference is that the second version of your sentence is incorrect.

The word 'that' introduc

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