I wonder whether these sentences are grammatically correct

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1. I want to have seen you by tomorrow.2. I want to have seen you yesterday.Are these sentences grammatically correct? and what do they mean?

CalifJim · Accepted Answer

fire1Are these sentences grammatically correct? And what do they mean?

Isn't this backwards?

We usually start with a thought, a meaning that we want to express in words. Then we find the right words to express that thought.

But you, in contrast, throw a bunch of words together whose meaning you don't know, and then present us with the puzzle of discovering the meaning.

A very unusual methodology you've got there.

fire11. I want to have seen you by tomorrow.
2. I want to have seen you yesterday.

Neither one is likely to have been generated by a native speaker of English, so it's like interpreting something a machine came up with. I'll have to guess.

I'd say the first one is like I hope I see you before tomorrow, and the second is like I wish I had seen you yesterday.

That's about the best I can do with those.

CJ

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