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Anonymous

#206719 Thu, 16 Mar 06 12:10 PM

What is the tense of the verb of this sentence???????and when we use this tense,plz give me some examples.

***A family went to a hospital, where one of their relatives would be having a brain transplant.

thank you...

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Goodman

#206833 Thu, 16 Mar 06 08:45 PM

This is a scenario where a past event took place and describe into the future.

Ex: At my wedding last week I had met my Aunt from Chicago for the first time and she asked me if I would go visit her this summer?

Does this help?

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paco2004

#206899 Fri, 17 Mar 06 01:51 AM

The future progressive tense "will be -ing" is often used to describe a future event that is independent from the volition of the subject.
(EX) Our plane will be soon arriving at Teheran Airport.
If you change the frame time of this sentence into the past, it will be like as follows.
(EX) The captain announced that their plane would be soon arriving at Teheran Airport.
That is, "would be -ing" is an expression to describe a non-volitional future event embedded in a context of the past time.

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CalifJim

#206920 Fri, 17 Mar 06 03:13 AM

I am not aware of any name that is used for a construction with a modal verb like "would". I don't believe that in traditional grammar this is called a tense. It is a verbal construction with a modal verb.

"shall" and "will" are exceptions. Verbal constructions with these modals are called the future tense.

Personally I like the idea of calling verbal constructions with "would" the "future of the past", but my idea hasn't caught on, that I know of!

Whatever you call it, it is clearly a progressive 'tense' because of the "-ing".

CJ

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