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Lcchang Posted 13 years ago
Vocabulary

time sequence

I have a meeting tomorrow afternoon, but it should be over well before we pick one up during my lunch hour.

My question is which action goes first? the meeting or picking up a gift? Thanks.
  

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Lcchang I have a meeting tomorrow afternoon, but it (the meeting) should be over well before we pick one up (a gift) during my lunch hour. The meeting is over = The meeting is finished So the meeting is finished before picking up the gift. The meeting is first.

— CalifJim

  • Lcchang I have a meeting tomorrow afternoon, but it (the meeting) should be over well before we pick one up (a gift) during my lunch hour.
  • The meeting is over = The meeting is finished So the meeting is finished before picking up the gift.
  • The meeting is first.
  • CJ
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LcchangI have a meeting tomorrow afternoon, but it (the meeting) should be over well before we pick one up (a gift) during my lunch hour.
The meeting is over = The meeting is finished

So the meeting is finished before picking up the gift.

The meeting is first.

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But the meeting is in the afternoon, but he is buying a gift during his lunch break. I am confused....
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Oh, I guess "afternoon" can mean the time starting right from 12 noon. So when the meeting is over before the lunch hour ends, he still has time to buy something. Is that right?
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Then this sentence makes no sense and "it" cannot refer to the afternoon meeting, since "it" is going to be over before lunch.
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LcchangBut the meeting is in the afternoon, but he is buying a gift during his lunch break.
Yes, the sentence shows the signs of having been hastily and clumsily constructed. To make sense of it we need to assume that the speaker takes a lunch break late in the afternoon, and not at the usual time.

Once you get over the idea that lunch has to be at n
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