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At 09:05 AM 3/20/2008, Carol Morrison wrote: . . .
>Analyzing English Grammar, by Klammer, Schulz, & Volpe, "There is no
>future tense morpheme in English, no affix that can be attached to a
>verb to indicate that the action will take place in the future.
>Simple future time must be expressed by other words in the sentence" . . .
> 1) Modals . . .
>2) Present Tense + Adverbial Modifiers . . .
DD: Now that hit me hard. I thank y'all for the information. I never
even considered the idea. Trapped in Latin Grammar, I am. Going back
to rearrange my paradigms.
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