Will come to be debated
Those issues will come to be debated tomorrow.
Is the sentence above grammatical?
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Dear Tkacka15, I have compared your sentence against several others featuring this particular construction in the future tense, such as this one: President Michael D Higgins has said he hopes the vision of Nelson Mandela “ will come to be achieved in our fragile planet”. What worries me is not grammaticality as such, but the aspectual semantics of the passive verb. In the examples that I was able to find, my intuition was confirmed: they are all clearly telic verbs (i.
- Dear Tkacka15, I have compared your sentence against several others featuring this particular construction in the future tense, such as this one: President Michael D Higgins has said he hopes the vision of Nelson Mandela “ will come to be achieved in our fragile planet”.
- What worries me is not grammaticality as such, but the aspectual semantics of the passive verb.
- In the examples that I was able to find, my intuition was confirmed: they are all clearly telic verbs (i.
- e.
- ).
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Dear Tkacka15,
I have compared your sentence against several others featuring this particular construction in the future tense, such as this one:
President Michael D Higgins has said he hopes the vision of Nelson Mandela “will come to be achieved in our fragile planet”.
What worries me is not grammaticality as such, but the aspectual semantics of the pas
0tkacka15Those issues will come to be debated tomorrow.
Is the sentence above grammatical?
Yes, but my intuition tells me that 'come to be' usually suggests a time period much longer than from today to tomorrow.
Someday space travel for the general populace will come to be seen as commonplace.
CJ
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