Timeline for Expect: How to disambiguate dual meaning?
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| Sep 28, 2016 at 23:07 | comment | added | Ian Newson | A superb answer. | |
| Sep 28, 2016 at 23:07 | vote | accept | Ian Newson | ||
| Sep 28, 2016 at 22:46 | comment | added | Lawrence | @IanNewson Apologies for having left that out. I've added a discussion about your sentence. | |
| Sep 28, 2016 at 22:45 | history | edited | Lawrence | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Addressed the OP's question directly.
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| Sep 28, 2016 at 21:27 | comment | added | Ian Newson | Also you're point about event vs person is astute. But in the sentence 'i expect not to hear from you're there's ambiguity as there's an event ('hear from you') and person ('you'). | |
| Sep 28, 2016 at 14:09 | comment | added | Ian Newson | Good answer, but I wonder if you could expand with slightly with my specific ambiguous sentence? 'I expect not to hear from you again' | |
| Sep 28, 2016 at 13:09 | history | edited | Lawrence | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
added 8 characters in body
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| Sep 28, 2016 at 13:04 | history | answered | Lawrence | CC BY-SA 3.0 |