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Anonymous Posted 9 years ago
Vocabulary

Sooner rather than later

He's on the borrowed time and sooner rather than later he will be removed from his post.

Is the sentence above grammatical? Shouldn't there be simple present "is" after "sooner rather than later", i.e. "he is removed..."?

  

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anonymous Is the sentence above grammatical? Yes. e.

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  • anonymous Is the sentence above grammatical?
  • Yes.
  • e.
  • "?
  • No.
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anonymousIs the sentence above grammatical?

Yes.

anonymousShouldn't there be simple present "is" after "sooner rather than later", i.e. "he is removed..."?

No. The removal is a future event.

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The idiom is "on borrowed time," without "the."

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Thank you for the replies.

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