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Tifacat Posted 17 years ago
Grammar

What "in point of time" means?

In point of time, the first area outside of Europe to attract the benign eye of acquisitive merchants, the righteous sigh of pious missionaries and consecrated sword of gracious sovereigns was that land-mass, nearest to it, and around which one needs to go to reach the fabled riches of Asia – that is, Africa.



Does anyone know what "in point of time" mean under this context?



Thanks a lot!
  

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there's a few problems with that sentence! 'In point of time' is incorrect. It should be 'At that point in time' - meaning at a specific time in the past.

— Nona the brit

  • there's a few problems with that sentence!
  • 'In point of time' is incorrect.
  • It should be 'At that point in time' - meaning at a specific time in the past.
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phew..there's a few problems with that sentence!

'In point of time' is incorrect. It should be 'At that point in time' - meaning at a specific time in the past.
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Thanks.

I copied this sentence directly from the text...and no idea about it at all!

Thanks for helping!
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English is not my first language.

But if "that point in time" reffers to a specific or approximate time. (e.g. a date, year, 3 o'clock)

Could "that point of time" reffer to a more general period of time. (e.g. Sometime within the past 10 years.)
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