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Tzu
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May 27, 2007
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What's happening over there?
Huge floods. It was heavily raining for 48 hours, really really heavy straight...




Rivers got really huge, it made a huge mess in many cities :sad: they are evacuating many people but there's also electricity problems apparently. Some roads and small bridges were broken.
 

Bisco

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Nov 21, 2005
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does any one have any idea why we cant say" i will want to have" grammatically when speaking in the future tense? a friend of mine asked me this earlier. for me it just sounds wrong but i cant put my finger on the reason.
 

swag

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Sep 23, 2003
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does any one have any idea why we cant say" i will want to have" grammatically when speaking in the future tense? a friend of mine asked me this earlier. for me it just sounds wrong but i cant put my finger on the reason.
That's a good question. I think the phrase "I will want to have" anticipates a very strong predictive correlation of a future state which is unlikely. There are probably correct circumstances for using it -- for example, imagine loving an internationally renowned pizza place in Chicago where everyone orders their deep dish sausage pizza, it wouldn't be wrong to say, "Oh yeah, when we get there I will definitely want to have ..."

But much more common for the future tense, you'd probably more likely say "I may want to have"... the idea being that you won't be 100% sure of your future state of mind and desire until you actually get there.

BBC placed an article about Serbia under Africa category :sergio: they changed later on.
Must have hired a few Americans at the BBC. :p
 

Bisco

Senior Member
Nov 21, 2005
14,418
That's a good question. I think the phrase "I will want to have" anticipates a very strong predictive correlation of a future state which is unlikely. There are probably correct circumstances for using it -- for example, imagine loving an internationally renowned pizza place in Chicago where everyone orders their deep dish sausage pizza, it wouldn't be wrong to say, "Oh yeah, when we get there I will definitely want to have ..."

But much more common for the future tense, you'd probably more likely say "I may want to have"... the idea being that you won't be 100% sure of your future state of mind and desire until you actually get there.



Must have hired a few Americans at the BBC. :p
thank you soooo much swag!!! its very much appreciated bro :beer:
 

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