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Anonymous Posted 11 years ago
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To Be Known ?
... to be known as Euro or known as Euro? What does to be v3 mean? Isn't it future tense?
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Anonymous What does " to be v3 " mean? Isn't it future tense? It can't be the future tense without "will", but it can indicate future time.
- Anonymous What does " to be v3 " mean?
- Isn't it future tense?
- It can't be the future tense without "will", but it can indicate future time.
- Context is needed to understand the temporal nuances in any coherent way.
- All you have here is an infinitive.
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AnonymousWhat does "to be v3" mean? Isn't it future tense?It can't be the future tense without "will", but it can indicate future time.
Context is needed to understand the temporal nuances in any coherent way. All you have here is an infinitive. Infinitives are used all over th
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The full sentence is " They agreed on the use of a single currency to be known as the "Euro"
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AnonymousThe full sentence is " They agreed on the use of a single currency to be known as the "Euro"Ah. A little more complicated than I expected. This is the future of the past. It's like "was going to be known as". In the active voice: ... a currency which people were (later) going to call the "Euro".
Make sense?
CJ
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