Re: How to "be going"?

From: B. Ito (jg2cme_at_wonder.ocn.ne.jp)
Date: 01/14/05 

Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2005 15:08:28 +0900

"Bart Mathias" <mathias@hawaii.edu> wrote in message
news:9eIFd.16147$hc7.10700@trnddc08...
> B. Ito wrote:
>>
>> [...]
>> I think 「学校へいっている」has three different nuances.
>>
>> 1) She is a student. (She goes to school.)
>> 2) She is on the way to school. (She has left home for school.)
>> 3) She has gone to school. (She is at school (now).)
>>
>> [...]
>
> 2) and 3) can be hard to tell apart, unless one has outside information.
> "She should be at school by now, but maybe she dawdled." Would you ever
> say this if you could still see her walking down the street?
>
> Bart
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I think you could.

「学校へいっている」 could be　
「（ほら、あのように）学校へ向かって歩いている」.

1') She is a student.
2') She is walking to school. (now)
3') She is at school. (probably now)
4) She teaches at school.
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B.Ito

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