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Abil Posted 18 years ago
Grammar

(on) next Sunday

I received her email confirming that she would come (on) next Sunday. She said she would call me when she is here. We have not met each other for nearly five years. The last time we met was in a lunch party hosted by a diplomat friend of mine. Since then, she has been living in a resort island in Indonesia writing a novel on her experience in rebel captivity.

Is the "on" in brackets in the first sentence optional? Any rooms for improvement?
  

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she would come on Sunday. she would come next Sunday. " A couple of other suggestions: I received her email confirming that she would come next Sunday.

— Mr Wordy

  • she would come on Sunday.
  • she would come next Sunday.
  • " A couple of other suggestions: I received her email confirming that she would come next Sunday.
  • She said she would call me when she is here arrives .
  • We have not met seen each other for nearly five years.
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You shouldn't use "on" with "next":

"...she would come on Sunday."

"...she would come next Sunday."

A couple of other suggestions:

I received her email confirming that she would come next Sunday. She said she would call me when she is here arrives. We have not met seen each other for nearly five
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Mr. Wordy, what is wrong with "met"? I know meet has the meaning of meeting a person for the first time. However, it can also take the meaning of see.


I met John, an old friend, at the grocery store today. I didn't know he was in town.
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Thanks Mr Wordy.
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New2grammarwhat is wrong with "met"?
"met" isn't exactly wrong, but "seen" seems more idiomatic in the original context. "met" suggests to me that you don't really know the other person at all -- you've only ever met them cursorily and formally -- which doesn't seem to fit the tone, and makes it less likely that you'd remark on the length of time. The "each ot
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Dear Mr Wordy

I suppose there is a mistake in your sentence. in the first column of your sentence arrives should have been written as arrived.

please enlighten us about it.
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Seloc@nI suppose there is a mistake in your sentence. in the first column of your sentence arrives should have been written as arrived.
I think either is possible, but they have different nuances for me. "arrived" makes it more uncertain whether she'll arrrive, or whether she has already arrived. For example, if I was expecting her call, and it was imminent or
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Thank you. Does your explanation assume that it is reported speech??

Sentence as corrected by you:
She said she would call me when she is here arrives.

So, if something is further away in time a present tense after a subordinate clause started by 'when' is possible. Does that apply to a subordinate clause started by 'if' , 'after' ?

She said s
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AnonymousThank you. Does your explanation assume that it is reported speech??
I guess so.
AnonymousSentence as corrected by you:
She said she would call me when she is here arrives.

Actually, this wasn't so much a "correction" as a "room for improvement" (as Abil asked for). "is here" i
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