Timeline for Usage "when he grows up"
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| Jan 23, 2020 at 11:58 | comment | added | WS2 | @Tommy Just out of interest, Tommy, what is your native language? If you happen to be French I can understand why the English construction here seems odd. French would not use the past but the conditional, I suspect. And that's probably the case in other Romance languages. | |
| Oct 31, 2018 at 12:33 | comment | added | Tommy | Looks interesting, will give it a close read, many thanks for your advice ;-) | |
| Oct 30, 2018 at 23:05 | comment | added | GerardFalla | Oh - you might find this useful, btw: [qntm.org/streetmentioner] | |
| Oct 30, 2018 at 22:25 | comment | added | Tommy | Got your point, Tnx! | |
| Oct 30, 2018 at 22:09 | comment | added | GerardFalla | I think there's a simple misunderstanding about tenses and time here: "Don dreamed that he would become a doctor when he grew up" or as I rephrased it: "Don dreamed that one day, when he grew up, he would become a doctor." work because the DREAM Don had, in which he grew up to become a doctor OCCURRED in the relative past - though his dream projected a future adult state in which he became a doctor, the dream itself occurred in the past, and hence the correct tenses would all be in accord. | |
| Oct 30, 2018 at 21:14 | comment | added | Tommy | Tnx for rephrasing, but do you see any problem with this sentence as it is: "Don dreamed of becoming a doctor one day, when he grows up." Don is still a child. My question is if the present tense (when he grows up) can sit well with the whole paragraph telling it in the past tense (Don dreamed etc..) and the rest of the essay which is written in the past, Tnx. | |
| Oct 29, 2018 at 15:37 | history | answered | GerardFalla | CC BY-SA 4.0 |