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Slocawber Posted 12 years ago
Grammar
Sometimes I'll go...
In today's number of the Daily Star there's an article about Pete
the Feet, a man who has hardly ever worn a pair of shoes.
A passage reads like this:
“Sometimes I’ll go to the pub
and they say: ‘Sorry I can’t
serve you, you haven’t got
shoes on.’”
I'm focusing on 'I’ll go to the pub
and they say...'. Is this a forecast?
Does 'sometimes' stand for 'one day or another'?
Thank you
the Feet, a man who has hardly ever worn a pair of shoes.
A passage reads like this:
“Sometimes I’ll go to the pub
and they say: ‘Sorry I can’t
serve you, you haven’t got
shoes on.’”
I'm focusing on 'I’ll go to the pub
and they say...'. Is this a forecast?
Does 'sometimes' stand for 'one day or another'?
Thank you
Top answer
'. Is this a forecast? No, it's a simple conjunction in a story with events.
- '.
- Is this a forecast?
- No, it's a simple conjunction in a story with events.
- slocawber Does 'sometimes' stand for 'one day or another'?
- Possibly, but it could also be several times in one day, two or three times a month, or fifteen times in a year.
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slocawberand they say...'. Is this a forecast?No, it's a simple conjunction in a story with events.
slocawberDoes 'sometimes' stand for 'one day or another'?Possibly, but it could also be several times in one day, two or three times a month, or fifteen times in a year.
It means "occasionally," or "not always."
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So: he's talking about something that has already happened, using a future tense!
Could you write the same sentence in a different way (e.g. not with a future), just to let me better understand its meaning?
Couldn't it be for instance 'Sometimes, when I go to the pub...'?
Never seen such a use of the future, though...
Thank you
Could you write the same sentence in a different way (e.g. not with a future), just to let me better understand its meaning?
Couldn't it be for instance 'Sometimes, when I go to the pub...'?
Never seen such a use of the future, though...
Thank you
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slocawberCouldn't it be for instance 'Sometimes, when I go to the pub...'?Yes. It is not actually a future event he is talking about, but more like a timeless (past, present, future). The past uses "would" and that implies that it will not happen in present or future time.
See entry #6
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