On this audio file, at 1:40, what does in the rack mean?
It's what I hear:
I got three cars in the rack, it's all over the place down here, you know.
Source: The ILI English Series, Intermediate 2, Page 87
They're paraphrases, a bit like "gloss", and you have to read them the way someone who doesn't know ins and outs of English or think of English as a foreign language would.
@DamkerngT. let's establish the two possible interpretations. one is the one you gave. the other is, "it is predictable that in the future we will be able to say some of you have met me."
t is predictable that in the future we will be able to say some of you have met me." The sentence, I will have met you before, doesn't convay that message.
One of the most difficult things I found is trying to convince native speakers of English to understand English and explanations about English usage from the view of learners.
@dbliss That's probably okay. It's probably the best if you repeat the two interpretations again and maybe which of them is associated (or not associated) with which answers.
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@DamkerngT. you say in your answer, "it is predictable that some of you have met me before." i say now, "it is predictable that in the future we will be able to say some of you have met me." these are the two interpretations i want to talk about right now.
@DamkerngT. do you see these as having different meanings?
May I suggest that there is something about the future that might be implied conceptually in some of you will have met me? It works like this:.If we go around the room and check (a future hypothetical), we will find that some of you have met me.
> The list of companies includes Name1, Name2, ... Name12 and Name13, to name a few. (I guessed how to avoid the use of "and others" together with "includes"). Thanks, Jim.
> Each year the event provides a space where representatives of governmental agencies and companies operating large-tonnage and small-tonnage LNG projects, as well as global customer firms (Europe and Asia-Pacific), technology providers and equipment suppliers gather together to discuss strategically important industry issues.
@Cardinal About omitting that, which, who..., you need to look at the word after thoes pronouns, if it's a verb don't omit it, but if it's a noun feel free to drop it. The rule is, when there is a verb after relative pronouns, they are the subjects of the clause, and if there is a noun after them, they are the objects of the clause.
Traditionally, English grammar has three main tenses, right? The present, the past, and the future. (Let's ignore aspects, like the perfect and the progressive, for now.)
Okay. :D -- In modern grammars, tense is more about forms.
So, to answer the question [blank] will have happened. what tense is that? -- The best answer is probably it has no tense.
(In modern grammar, the line between the semantics and syntax is more clear-cut, I think.)
So, I guess that when you asked about [blank] will have happened. what tense is that?, you were asking about the semantics, i.e., what time frame this sentence is located it.
Maybe John Lawler can explain this to you better than me. Anyway, here is a comment he wrote to an old answer. I'm sure there's better ones but this is the best I can find at the moment.
Right. This is just the epistemic sense of will -- confident prediction -- as opposed to the epistemic sense of must -- logical necessity. All modal use is less assertive than a simple assertion -- You've heard the news -- because all modality raises the questions of possibility, probability, and evidence. — John LawlerMay 28 '14 at 14:25
In the following two sentences “Your will have heard the news, so I need not repeat it.” “They will have received our letter now. ” , how to understand the "will have + past participle"? Is it future perfect tense or some kind of guess?
Thank you so much!
On this audio file, at 1:40, what does in the rack mean?
It's what I hear:
I got three cars in the rack, it's all over the place down here, you know.
Source: The ILI English Series, Intermediate 2, Page 87
In the following two sentences “Your will have heard the news, so I need not repeat it.” “They will have received our letter now. ” , how to understand the "will have + past participle"? Is it future perfect tense or some kind of guess?
Thank you so much!
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