Re: Please check these sentences (future forms problems)

Ant_222 — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 21:43:40 GMT

  Here's how I'd rewrite these sentences:
  
  "I'm thankful for your help. I hope you will be teaching/  you
   are going to teach/ you will him also the next year."

  I'd say "you'll continue teaching him in the next year"

  "I'm afraid I won?t be teaching him/ I'm not  going  to  teach
  him, because I teach 5-graders and he will be/ is going to  be
  a 6-grader."

  I am afraid you  won't  be  able  to  teach  him  because  you
  specialize in teaching the fifth grade's course.

  "I hope that you will be working/ will work in my company."

  I hope you'll agree to work in my company.

  "By then, I will have it done/ will have done it."

  Both will work, but "will have done it" is more standard.
  Doll: I don't think it so certain that "have it done" implies
  not doing it by yourself...

  As to the theory behing the various future forms, here  are  a
  couple of my thoughts:


   I. Will do.
  This is generally perfective. "I'll  do it tomorrow" means 
  the thing will be finished. "Next year  I'll teach you the
  Marx theory" -- means the act of teaching will be finished
  in the next year.

  II. Will be doing.
  In contrast  to the previous form, this one is non-perfec-
  tive, i.e it  denotes an action that will  not be complete
  at some time in future:

  "I can't go with you, tomorow at seven I'll still be at
  university tinkering with my course work project"

  "I won't be able to take you son as a degree thesis stu-
  dent because I'll be having enough touble another three
  student on the cathedra."

  3. To be going to
  This is actually a present form -- present progressive to
  be specfic.

  In the majority of cases:
  "To be going to do sonething" = "To be seriously planning
  to do something".

  "I going to get myself employed by IBM next year",
  "I'm not ganna read this garbage!"

Re: Mixed Conditionals (Is this allowed?)

MrPedantic — Sun, 31 Jul 2005 01:20:21 GMT

Anonymous wrote:
Hello.
I came across a couple of sites, and I was wondering if you could verify the authenticity of their contents.

http://www.edufind.com/english/grammar/IF8.cfm
http://www.englishpage.com/conditional/mixedconditional.html

The pages look ok. The first site should mention that the subjunctive 'were' is standard in place of 'was' in the first and third person singular:

1. If MrQ were here, you wouldn't have done that.

Though you hear this use of 'were' slightly less often in BrE than in AmE.

The last set of examples on the second site don't sound like mixed conditionals to me. They seem like standard type 2s. But maybe other members will have other opinions.

2. If his father hadn't lost all his money, John would study at the university.

This structure (IF past perfect, main clause 'would' + base form) isn't incorrect, with the right context:

3. If his father hadn't throttled him at birth, MrQ would be prime minister now.

The present progressive is used where the context requires a sense of a continuing action:

4. If I'd braked sooner, I wouldn't now be paying $300 for repairs.

MrP

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