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Fri Feb 01, 2008 11:46 am "to complete" vs "to have completed" |
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. I don't think B works-- at the time they undertook the job, the completion was clearly in the future. . _________________ Canadian-American native speaker who teaches English for a living at Mister Micawber's ESL cafe: Interview with Mr. Micawber |
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Fri Feb 01, 2008 13:06 pm "to complete" vs "to have completed" |
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What about the following:
...The builders undertook that they would have completed.....
Would it be correct?
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audiolaik New Member

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Fri Feb 01, 2008 13:39 pm "to complete" vs "to have completed" |
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| audiolaik wrote: | What about the following:
...The builders undertook that they would have completed.....
Would it be correct?
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lxguy I'm new here and I like it ;-)
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Fri Feb 01, 2008 14:54 pm "to complete" vs "to have completed" |
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. Even worse, in my estimation! Undertook that they would complete is OK. . _________________ Canadian-American native speaker who teaches English for a living at Mister Micawber's ESL cafe: Interview with Mr. Micawber |
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Mister Micawber Language Coach

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Fri Feb 01, 2008 16:05 pm "to complete" vs "to have completed" |
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| audiolaik wrote: | What about the following:
...The builders undertook that they would have completed..... | I find that sentence to be awkward at best.
Here is a little feedback from the British National Corpus about just how uncommon the phrase "undertook that they would" is: If you click here, you'll notice that there are no hits at all in the BNC
For anyone who might be interested, there has been additional discussion on this topic in another forum. _________________ Amy
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Yankee I'm a Communicator ;-)

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| The use and position of 'Left'. | in vs on (e.g. "in the team" vs "on the team") |