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Zuotengdazuo Posted 5 years ago
Grammar

Has never until now

Hello. Please look at this sentence.
Until now, the above documents and information have not been provided by the Banks.

Until Now

The link says

NOW (or in the very recent past) they have provided them.

Can the example alternatively express that the Banks are about to (or will) provide them (rather than they have provided them)?

The link also says

Until now I have never eaten sushi. (NOW the speaker is eating sushi)

Generally, I would like to know what the construction "A have/has not done B... until now" means exactly. Has A done B now? Or will A do B? Or is A in the process of doing B now?

Thank you.

  

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zuotengdazuo Can the example alternatively express that the Banks are about to (or will) provide them (rather than they have provided them)? I suppose that if nobody has yet asked for them since the banks changed their policy, that would be true, but the clear way to put that is to use "have not been made available". "Provide" strongly implies that they have actually handed some over already.

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  • zuotengdazuo Can the example alternatively express that the Banks are about to (or will) provide them (rather than they have provided them)?
  • I suppose that if nobody has yet asked for them since the banks changed their policy, that would be true, but the clear way to put that is to use "have not been made available".
  • "Provide" strongly implies that they have actually handed some over already.
  • zuotengdazuo The link also saysUntil now I have never eaten sushi.
  • (NOW the speaker is eating sushi)Generally, I would like to know what the construction "A have/has not done B...
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zuotengdazuoCan the example alternatively express that the Banks are about to (or will) provide them (rather than they have provided them)?

I suppose that if nobody has yet asked for them since the banks changed their policy, that would be true, but the clear way to put that is to use "have not been made available". "Provide" strongly implies that they have

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zuotengdazuoI would like to know what the construction "A have/has not done B... until now" means exactly. Has A done B now? Or will A do B? Or is A in the process of doing B now?

It can be any of those, depending on the nature of the verb that "has been done".

Even weeks before moving into a new house I have bought, I may say

I've never

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