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Vladv Posted 8 years ago
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To be nominated
"Sofia Coppola is only the third woman to be nominated for best director.
Dear native speakers , to my understanding this sentence is ambivalent, and without further context "to be nominated" can relate both to the future And to the past , can't it ?
Dear native speakers , to my understanding this sentence is ambivalent, and without further context "to be nominated" can relate both to the future And to the past , can't it ?
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Vladv , to my understanding this sentence is ambivalent, and without further context "to be nominated" can relate both to the future And to the past , can't it ? Yes, but it is inherent in the structure—much of most languages contains ambivalences out of context.
- Vladv , to my understanding this sentence is ambivalent, and without further context "to be nominated" can relate both to the future And to the past , can't it ?
- Yes, but it is inherent in the structure—much of most languages contains ambivalences out of context.
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Vladv, to my understanding this sentence is ambivalent, and without further context "to be nominated" can relate both to the future And to the past , can't it ?
Yes, but it is inherent in the structure—much of most languages contains ambivalences out of context.
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