Re: For those fond of French tongue peculiarities, ...

From: Brian M. Scott (b.scott_at_csuohio.edu)
Date: 07/21/04 

Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2004 14:39:50 -0400

On Wed, 21 Jul 2004 20:04:28 +0200 Mxsmanic
<mxsmanic@hotmail.com> wrote in
<news:hubtf05pi02vlt2cisdkhqagsa3262g0i6@4ax.com> in
sci.lang:

> Brian M. Scott writes:

>>> That would mean that your on-call period would have already ended by the
>>> next week being referenced. [...]

>> Obviously not. Apparently you didn't read the sentence.

> But I did.

> You might have said "I was to be on call next week," which would mean
> that the on-call period was planned for next week. Saying "I was to
> have been on call next week" implies that the on-call period would
> already be finished by next week."

No, it doesn't; it flatly contradicts that interpretation.

> Perfect tenses describe things in
> the past.

I see that your limitations as a teacher of English are not
confined to the sounds of the language.

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