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Debpriya De Posted 16 years ago
Grammar

Would like to have

I liked "Iris" and would like to have seen the movie nominated.

What is the meaning of this sentence ?
Does it mean that the speaker wanted the movie to be nominated in the past or does it mean that speaker wants the movie to be nominated now?
  

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In the past, but it wasn't nominated.

— Mister Micawber

  • In the past, but it wasn't nominated.
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In the past, but it wasn't nominated.
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Hi,

I liked "Iris" and would like to have seen the movie nominated.

What is the meaning of this sentence ?

Does it mean that the speaker wanted the movie to be nominated in the past

Yes. The speaker regrets now that the movie was not nomintaed in the past.

or does it mean that speaker wants the movie to be nominated now?

No. For this, say

I li

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But "would like" is roughly equivalent to the verb "want" which refers to something we want in the future.
What about the sentence "I would like to have done my homework before my father comes home" or
"I want to have done my homework before my father comes home" ?
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Hi,

But "would like" is roughly equivalent to the verb "want" which refers to something we want in the future.

What about the sentenceor

"I want to have done my homework before my father comes home" ?

If you walk into a room and begin a conversation by saying

I would like to have won a Nobel Prize

I will assume that you want to have wo
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