Hence/later
Do both these sentences mean the same?
a) "He could hope to get a Permanent Resident Visa eighteen months hence."
b) "He could hope to get a Permanent Resident Visa eighteen months later."
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I can't tell what you mean by "He could hope to", but "could" looks like past, and "hence means "from now", so no, it doesn't work. Anyway, "hence" is rather literary.
- I can't tell what you mean by "He could hope to", but "could" looks like past, and "hence means "from now", so no, it doesn't work.
- Anyway, "hence" is rather literary.
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I can't tell what you mean by "He could hope to", but "could" looks like past, and "hence means "from now", so no, it doesn't work. Anyway, "hence" is rather literary.
0Christine Christiemean the same?
No.
hence implies from now; later implies from a specified time.
(Hardly anybody outside a bureaucracy is using "hence" these days.)
CJ
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