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English 1b3 Posted 14 years ago
Grammar

Tenses

a. I could not prevent my imagination from churning out a picture of them, the town, and the place I would soon call home.

b. I could not prevent my imagination from churning out a picture of them, the town, and the place I will soon call home.

In terms of tenses, are both of the above grammatical?

Does b suggest I at the time this was written didn't call this place home?
  

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English 1b3 I could not prevent my imagination from churning out a picture of them, the town, and the place I would soon call home. X ................. English 1b3 I could not prevent my imagination from churning out a picture of them, the town, and the place I will soon call home.

— CalifJim

  • English 1b3 I could not prevent my imagination from churning out a picture of them, the town, and the place I would soon call home.
  • X .................
  • English 1b3 I could not prevent my imagination from churning out a picture of them, the town, and the place I will soon call home.
  • calling the place home.......
  • English 1b3 Does b suggest I at the time this was written didn't call this place home?
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English 1b3I could not prevent my imagination from churning out a picture of them, the town, and the place I would soon call home.
X - the present moment; the moment of utterance

.........imagined picture........calling the place home ............X .................
English 1b3I could not prevent my imagination from churning ou
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Thanks. But what is the present moment? When it was written or when it was read?
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spoken ("utterance") or written.

CJ
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Thank you. That was actually a stupid question now that I think about it properly - how would the writer know when it was going to be read?
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English 1b3Thank you. That was actually a stupid question now that I think about it properly - how would the writer know when it was going to be read?
I tied my hands down to refrain from mentioning that.
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CalifJimI tied my hands down to refrain from mentioning that.
How kind of you to spare me the embarrassment
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