Most of the decided that PRON would ones are simple past verbs, and most of the decided that PRON will ones are present perfect verbs.
My question was Why are " decided that PRON would " hits so much more than any other ones?.
I think the answer (as @Dam proposed) is in how probable it is to utter either one of those structures. It is quite natural to talk about past decisions (decided that PRON would), as natural but less probable to talk about recent past decisions ((have) decided that PRON will), and unnatural or much less probable to report decisions just as they are made (decide that PRON will).
Why is talking about recent decisions less probable than past decisions? I guess simply because of the proportions of the time spans: at any time you have made more past decisions than recent past decisions.
There may be no other reason for the asymmetry between the results.
Even most of those 14 decide that PRON will hits are not live reports of decisions: they are infinitives, habitual situations, present-tense narration, etc.
This chat is for ELL right... can I ask about *two hours' leave.*
> Grant me a two-hour leave > Grant me two hours' leave
The first one, ***two-hour*** is an adjective while the 2nd one is possession. Can someone explain to me why and how it's possible to become possession? Why *leave* become a possession of *two hours.*
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@XPMai Anyway, google CGEL and go to page 471 – paragraph titled Measure genitives.
The seeds that lay dormant thus (a)/far for want of heat, now (b)/ sprout forth with the help of the Sun heat.(c)/No error (d) answer says c @DamkerngT. @M.A.R. @snailplane Thanks in advance
@Færd You need to add the results for "I have decided that" and "I've decided that" together! Also, you'll find a lot of law reports in the results and a lot of people telling stories using the dramatic present. "So she splits up with me, and I decide to report her to the police for ...".
Other thing is that we don't use the present perfect all that much in books (especially in the first person). And then you've got to remember lots of constructions where we use the present to talk about the future "If I decide that ..." etc ...
@userr2684291 Whoa, seems like you know the full details behind it. Sadly there's no e-book on Google, the best I can find is this scribd.com/doc/252377510/… but at page 471 it seems to be different.
@Færd Yes, I think so. For example, if we are telling any kind of story about what happened this morning or yesterday or last week and so forth, we won't use the present perfect, we'll use the past simple. So a large proportion of recent past events are going to use the simple and not the prefect anyway ...
The quality of being hot; high temperature. ‘the fierce heat of the sun’ This is from oxforddictionaries.com. The previous one was fom Cambridge dictionaries.com.
Definition of heat intransitive verb 1 : to become warm or hot water heating in a kettle 2 : to start to spoil from heat transitive verb 1 : to make warm or hot heat a can of soup heat the oven to 350 degrees 2 : excite were heated by his stirring words heatableplay \ˈhē-tə-bəl\ adjective See heat defined for English-language learners See heat defined for kids Examples of heat in a sentence I heated the vegetables in the microwave. They heat their house with a wood stove.
Origin and Etymology of heat
Oh, can't delete this one. Found Sun's heat in Merriam-Webster.
@userr2684291 two minutes. It's to disallow normal users from doing harm while rage-quitting. You shouldn't be able to delete messages from 5 years ago, rendering already archived stuff obsolete
Mods can edit and delete messages from long times ago though
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Before Stack Exchange, I participated at a similar site. That site had a mandatory requirement: all answers must be different from each other, and users cannot copy from anywhere including Internet.
I will not copy here either. I always try to write all by myself. If I use other's words, I'll mak...
I think can sounds a bit more natural, but may is not really wrong (at least that's what I think).
You are right, "that" is not possible in that function. Which is one of the reasons why "that" is not a relative pronoun, but a clause subordinator. — BillJ18 mins ago
BillJ is right, but I wish we had a (meta?) page that explains why it's so, based on what grammar, along with reference books, etc.
> I had been interested to meet him and his wife because we shared the unfortunate distinction of having our marriages publicly picked apart
> I'd be interested to ask you about these fascinating relationships
> we are interested to compute the maximal controlled invariant set
> we asked those interested to sign up for an appointment with a researcher
... and tens of other sentences from COCA question the theory that says interested to is either used to talk about reactions to things one learns, or to talk about a wish to find out something.
So my original sentence, I'm interested to work in Germany this summer, could validly mean something like I'm eager to go to Germany for work.
No particular person's blood or no particular blood is being referred to with the. With the article it is analogous to "this drug affects the heart". Both versions, with and without the article, are correct. — TRomano3 hours ago
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How to begin the class? I'm week in spoken English. Could you please tell me some ideas?
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