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Anonymous Posted 16 years ago
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" I want to come home tomorrow and learn that you have passed the exam."

This can mean that I am out of town and the exam results have already been declared and I want to come home tomorrow and learn that you have passed the exam.

This can also mean that the exam results are going to be declared tomorrow and I want to come home tomorrow and learn that you have passed the exam.

How can we communicate both the ideas clearly ?
  

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" The first scenario seems a bit more difficult to express neatly in one natural sentence (obviously there's no problem spelling it out in more laborious ways, as you did in your question). "

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  • " The first scenario seems a bit more difficult to express neatly in one natural sentence (obviously there's no problem spelling it out in more laborious ways, as you did in your question).
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For the second scenario you could say:

"I want to come home tomorrow after the results have been declared and learn that you have passed the exam."

The first scenario seems a bit more difficult to express neatly in one natural sentence (obviously there's no problem spelling it out in more laborious ways, as you did in your question). Possibly you could say:

"Now that th
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