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Anonymous Posted 9 years ago
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The company is yet to comment.
Is the sentence above grammatically in the present and semantically expressing the future event?
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anonymous Is the sentence above grammatically in the present Yes. anonymous semantically expressing the future event? No.
- anonymous Is the sentence above grammatically in the present Yes.
- anonymous semantically expressing the future event?
- No.
- It only means that the company has not commented so far.
- It does not imply that they will do so, although "yet" carries a present-time expectation that they will.
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anonymousIs the sentence above grammatically in the present
Yes.
anonymoussemantically expressing the future event?
No. It only means that the company has not commented so far. It does not imply that they will do so, although "yet" carries a present-time expectation that they will.
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anonymousIs the sentence above grammatically in the present
Yes.
anonymousand semantically expressing the future event?
It says nothing about the future; it speaks only of the past and present. The more acceptable version is, in fact, 'The company has yet to comment.'
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