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HSS Posted 20 years ago
Grammar
Scheduled For
You would say the meeting is scheduled for June 6. What if it's taking place soon/in a few days and you don't know what date but you still want to use "scheduled"?
The meeting is scheduled for soon. No, sounds odd to me.
The meeting is scheduled for the near future. Could be.
The meeting is scheduled to be held in a few days. Yes. But couldn't we use the construction "scheduled for ..."?
Hiro/ Sendai, Japan
The meeting is scheduled for soon. No, sounds odd to me.
The meeting is scheduled for the near future. Could be.
The meeting is scheduled to be held in a few days. Yes. But couldn't we use the construction "scheduled for ..."?
Hiro/ Sendai, Japan
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I don't think you want to use is scheduled if it hasn't been scheduled yet, Hiro. How about: The meeting is to be scheduled for sometime soon / sometime in the near future / sometime in the next few days . Of course, if it is someone else's meeting, and you simply don't know the date that it has been scheduled for: The meeting has been scheduled for sometime soon , etc.
- I don't think you want to use is scheduled if it hasn't been scheduled yet, Hiro.
- How about: The meeting is to be scheduled for sometime soon / sometime in the near future / sometime in the next few days .
- Of course, if it is someone else's meeting, and you simply don't know the date that it has been scheduled for: The meeting has been scheduled for sometime soon , etc.
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I don't think you want to use is scheduled if it hasn't been scheduled yet, Hiro. How about: The meeting is to be scheduled for sometime soon / sometime in the near future / sometime in the next few days.
Of course, if it is someone else's meeting, and you simply don't know the date that it has been scheduled for: The meeting has been scheduled for
Of course, if it is someone else's meeting, and you simply don't know the date that it has been scheduled for: The meeting has been scheduled for
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Hi, MM.
Thanks. Yes, I meant it had been planned by somebody else for a specific date in the near future. Sometime soon --- that's the very phrase I wanted to know. I was thinking of such expressions as "Thanks for yesterday" where a time adverb becomes a noun meaning what happened (happens) on that particular date, and was thinking maybe "for soon" could be said with "scheduled." Many th
Thanks. Yes, I meant it had been planned by somebody else for a specific date in the near future. Sometime soon --- that's the very phrase I wanted to know. I was thinking of such expressions as "Thanks for yesterday" where a time adverb becomes a noun meaning what happened (happens) on that particular date, and was thinking maybe "for soon" could be said with "scheduled." Many th
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On second thought, I was wondering how you could say if you had planned it but if you don't want to mention the specific date. For me the word "some" carries "uncertainty on the part of the speaker." I may be far off about this.
Hiro
Hiro
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A problem that we begin running into here, Hiro-- and it is a common problem, at least on forum language discussions-- is that the situation approaches untenability, and it is therefore difficult to decide what might normally be said in improbable contexts; phraseology which seems normal in real situations no longer does so.
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