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Jumanah Posted 10 years ago
Grammar

Was going to

I was going to be a teacher.
I was going to have been a teacher.
What's the difference between them?
  

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I was going to be a teacher, but then I found my true passion was cooking. You tell us: When could you imagine using "I was going to have been a teacher"? I'm usually good at coming up with a context to fit something.

— BarbaraPA

  • I was going to be a teacher, but then I found my true passion was cooking.
  • You tell us: When could you imagine using "I was going to have been a teacher"?
  • I'm usually good at coming up with a context to fit something.
  • I can't imagine saying this.
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I was going to be a teacher, but then I found my true passion was cooking.

You tell us: When could you imagine using "I was going to have been a teacher"? I'm usually good at coming up with a context to fit something. I can't imagine saying this.
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Do you mean"I was going to have been a teacher " is grammatically incorrect?
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I said I could not imagine a context in which I would say that.
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JumanahWhat's the difference between them?
The second one makes no sense.

I was going to have been a teacher says that at some time in the past your intention was to be able to say in the future of that past that you had in the past of that future of the past been a teacher. So it's an attempt to express the past of the future o
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