Sunday 16 October 2011
Try Something New Today
What a shame that an Asian shopkeeper favoured by the student shoppers of Cambridge failed to beat Lord Sainsbury for the Chancellorship of that University. He could have started a trend. The choice of Sir Thomas Allen for Durham is splendid indeed. But next time, it could have been Sammy Sultana.
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"Next time it could have been..."
ReplyDelete"Next time it could be" or "This time it could have been". The future pluperfect suffers as a tense from being a) unwieldy and b) non-existent.
It is unwieldy, but it exists. The arts and humanities would be impossible without it.
ReplyDeleteNo future pluperfect? What a very pedestrian mind you must have, begor.
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