This deal gets done in 12 weeks
“The ball is now in the EU’s court, and don’t get me wrong, there will be plenty more negotiations, I’ve made that clear. But if they show us the same level of ambition, energy, pragmatism, this deal gets done in 12 weeks.”
(The Guardian.)
Is the result clause this deal gets done in 12 weeks grammatical in the conditional if they show us the same level of ambition, energy, pragmatism, this deal gets done in 12 weeks?
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This kind of use of the present tense is an informal style which, it seems to me, is becoming more common. Traditionally, and formally, one would say "... this deal will get done in 12 weeks".
- This kind of use of the present tense is an informal style which, it seems to me, is becoming more common.
- Traditionally, and formally, one would say "...
- this deal will get done in 12 weeks".
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This kind of use of the present tense is an informal style which, it seems to me, is becoming more common. Traditionally, and formally, one would say "... this deal will get done in 12 weeks".
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