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MUSCOVITE Posted 13 years ago
Grammar

very complicated sentence

Hi,

I would have so loved to have had lunch with Daddy on the Champs-Elysées and gone to the top of the Eiffel Tower with him, too.

This grammar is way too difficult for me to "feel" the beauty of the sentence. Could you please simplify this sentence a little... without "distorting" the original meaning of course?

Thank you
mus-te
  

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and gone... The original has too many compound tenses for my taste!

— Philip

  • and gone...
  • The original has too many compound tenses for my taste!
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I would have loved so much to have lunch with...and gone...
The original has too many compound tenses for my taste!
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MUSCOVITEHi,I would have so loved to have had lunch with Daddy on the Champs-Elysées and gone to the top of the Eiffel Tower with him, too.This grammar is way too difficult for me to "feel" the beauty of the sentence. Could you please simplify this sentence a little... without "distorting" the original meaning of course?Thank you mus-te
Most traditional gramma
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We normally mean one of these two things:

I would love (now) to have had lunch (then)
I would have loved (then) to have had lunch (then).

Although some native speakers do say " I would have loved to have lunch" instead of one or other of the first two constructions, purists insist that this can only mean:

I would have loved (then) to have had lunch (
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Lunch with Daddy on the Champs-Elysee would have been great, followed by us going to the top of the Eiffel Tower.
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This piece of grammar appears even more involved than I expected! Emotion: smile
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