You'll have received... in recent weeks
“Except in certain, limited instances, organisations now must demonstrate they have our explicit consent to process our sensitive personal data. Generally, we’ve also given greater control to the British public over how their data is used. No doubt like me you’ll have received a flurry of emails in recent weeks from the organisations currently holding your data, and perhaps some you weren’t even aware did, asking for you to re-submit this consent.”
(The Guardian.)
Is there any grammatical agreement between the future perfect you’ll have received a flurry of emails and the adverbial in recent weeks in the passage above?
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tkacka15 Is there any grammatical agreement between the future perfect you’ll have received a flurry of emails and the adverbial in recent weeks in the passage above? "Agreement" applies mostly to the relationship between a subject and verb, so technically it's not a matter of agreement. Nevertheless, I think I understand what you mean.
- tkacka15 Is there any grammatical agreement between the future perfect you’ll have received a flurry of emails and the adverbial in recent weeks in the passage above?
- "Agreement" applies mostly to the relationship between a subject and verb, so technically it's not a matter of agreement.
- Nevertheless, I think I understand what you mean.
- That combination of tense and adverbial expression is fine.
- Here's how we can parse the meaning: It will be the case (~ It is almost certainly true) that you have received a flurry of emails in recent weeks ....
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tkacka15Is there any grammatical agreement between the future perfect you’ll have received a flurry of emails and the adverbial in recent weeks in the passage above?
"Agreement" applies mostly to the relationship between a subject and verb, so technically it's not a matter of agreement. Nevertheless, I think I understand what you mean.
That combinati
0"you'll have received" is future perfect in form, but not in a temporal sense. "will" is indicating not a future time but the writer's assumption about what has happened, based on his or her general knowledge of the situation.
(Cross-posted.)
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