From: Patrick C. Ryan
Message: 19187
Date: 2003-02-25
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From: "P&G" <petegray@...>
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Sent: Monday, February 24, 2003 2:57 PM
Subject: Re: [tied] "Simple" Future
> >If I write: "We are to have dinner at 5", I do not sense any obligatory
> modality.
>
> It is of course a matter of custom, dialect, and individual usage. In my
> dialect such a sentence would mean "someone has told us to have dinner at
> 5".
[PCR]
And my equivalent would be: "We are supposed to have dinner at 5."
Pat
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