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Anonymous Posted 10 years ago
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We are way past being angry. Is it correct to say this for something will in the future?
  

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Anonymous for something will in the future? I don't understand this. Ca you try to say i in other words?

  • Anonymous for something will in the future?
  • I don't understand this.
  • Ca you try to say i in other words?
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Anonymousfor something will in the future?
I don't understand this. Ca you try to say i in other words?
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I don't understand your question. Maybe you wrote it incorrectly. I'm stuck on "something will in the future."

I'm not sure what you are asking, but with regard to the sentence, "way" in this use is extremely casual and not acceptable in most circumstances.

We are way past being angry.

The sentence means that we are much more than angry, and the word "angry" doesn't exp
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I sorry.
I forgot a word which is "happen"
"We are way past being tired"
Because there's "Being" I think we can use it as something will happen in the future.
Instead of "we're going to be very much tired"
Am I right?
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AnonymousBecause there's "Being" I think we can use it as something will happen in the future.
No. The presence of "being" does not cancel "are", which is present tense.

We are way past being [angry / tired / ...].

"being" is a non-finite form, so it has no tense of its own. It's not present, past, or future. It takes the sen
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What's the difference between these two?
We're way past being tired.
We're way past tired.
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AnonymousWhat's the difference between these two?We're way past being tired.We're way past tired.
The second one omits "being", so it sounds wrong.

CJ

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