Timeline for Usage of "been to" in perfect tenses and in other tenses
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| Oct 1, 2012 at 21:37 | comment | added | Robusto | I just made a comment on his answer, that's all. But it should be obvious to anyone that the OP's examples all take places as complements to to, not verbs. | |
| Oct 1, 2012 at 21:35 | comment | added | user16269 | @Robusto - I'm not questioning that. It just seems to me that Barrie was downvoted for answering the question as it was posed HERE, rather than answering the question as it was posed in the chat room. That doesn't seem fair, to me. I think there are users of this site who dispense downvotes far too freely, but that is just my private opinion. | |
| Oct 1, 2012 at 21:30 | comment | added | Robusto | @DavidWallace: For the back story of what prompted this question, and some ensuing discussion, click here. I'll allow that not enough of this made it into the OP's question, but it is that part of it that makes it interesting. | |
| Oct 1, 2012 at 21:08 | comment | added | user16269 | @tchrist The OP did not specify "be to do something" or "be to place/event". You are imagining words in the question that are not there. Barrie's example fits the question perfectly, as it currently stands. You and Robusto are NOT right about this. | |
| Oct 1, 2012 at 20:58 | comment | added | Barrie England | Perhaps the OP will be kind enough to tell us what was intended. | |
| Oct 1, 2012 at 20:28 | comment | added | user16269 | Hang on people. The question (minus the descriptive bits) was Can I use "be to" in any other tenses? Barrie has given a perfect answer to this question, along with an example of the use of "be to" in another tense. The two people who have downvoted him clearly can't read! | |
| Oct 1, 2012 at 19:50 | comment | added | Mitch | @BarrieEngland: Sorry, I don't know what they call schooling in the UK from ages 5 til just before university. Grade school covers all that in the US (You know, grades, like 'first grade' up to 'twelfth grade'). All I know for the UK is comprehensives and public school (which is private to me), but that seems to cover only the teenage years. | |
| Oct 1, 2012 at 19:39 | comment | added | Barrie England | @Mitch: Are there any grammarians in grade schools? (But then I have to admit, I don't know what grade schools are.) | |
| Oct 1, 2012 at 19:37 | comment | added | Barrie England | Then I am not sure what the question is. | |
| Oct 1, 2012 at 19:36 | comment | added | Mitch | If they don't speak of 'perfect tenses', what then do they speak of? Do grade school grammarians actually refer to aspect? | |
| Oct 1, 2012 at 19:20 | comment | added | Robusto | That's not quite the same thing. For it to be truly parallel, you would have to be able to say "You are to Paris and await instructions." | |
| Oct 1, 2012 at 19:18 | history | answered | Barrie England | CC BY-SA 3.0 |