Remember to have pp
In 'A Christmas Carol' by Dickens,
'Scrooge then remembered to have heard that ghosts in haunted houses were described as dragging chains. '
What is intended by the underlined expression? I learned that 'rememeber' followed by to infinitive means something not done yet. And the phrase in question just seemed not to fit into what I know.
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It is not a common expression in today's English. Dickens was writing a long time ago! "To have heard" is the perfect infinitive.
- It is not a common expression in today's English.
- Dickens was writing a long time ago!
- "To have heard" is the perfect infinitive.
- It is for an action in the past relative to the main verb.
- ' Scrooge then remembered to have heard that ghosts in haunted houses were described as dragging chains.
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It is not a common expression in today's English. Dickens was writing a long time ago! "To have heard" is the perfect infinitive. It is for an action in the past relative to the main verb.
'Scrooge then remembered to have heard that ghosts in haunted houses were described as dragging chains.
'Scrooge then remembered that he had heard
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