Prospective aspect
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Prospective aspect
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In linguistics, the prospective aspect is a grammatical aspect describing an event that occurs subsequent to a given reference time. One way to view tenses in English and many other languages is as a combination of a reference time in which a situation takes place, and the time of a particular event relative to the reference time. As an example, consider the following sentence: When I got home yesterday, John called and said he would arrive soon. The verb would arrive expresses a combination of
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Grammatical aspect of relative future from a referenced time
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2022-07-19T09:16:57Z
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