Future-In-Past Tense
Future-In-Past Tense
Future-in-past tense is an absolute-relative tense that refers to a time located in the future, relative to a contextually determined temporal reference point that itself must be located in the past relative to the moment of utterance .
(English)
- John left for the front; he would never return.
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Source: Comrie 1985b
Comrie, Bernard. 1985b.Tense. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University.
Broader Terms
Related terms
- RT⇆ Utterance
- ExactMatch: https://glossary.sil.org/term/future-past-tense
