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03-16-2009, 07:14 PM
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OK, so I want to say something along the lines of...
If A doesn't happen, then B isn't true. But I want to say it in the form of: Quote: |
It won't be until A happens will B come true.
| Is this grammar correct? If not, what's right way to word it?
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03-16-2009, 07:18 PM
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Originally Posted by AmazingGracePlayer  OK, so I want to say something along the lines of...
If A doesn't happen, then B isn't true. But I want to say it in the form of:
Is this grammar correct? If not, what's right way to word it? | Wrong. It needs to be worded like this. Not until A happens, will B be true. |
03-16-2009, 07:22 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Summit, NJ | | | But if I have to start with "It isn't until A happens"
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03-16-2009, 07:22 PM
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03-16-2009, 07:23 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: My Old Kentucky Home.... | | | "It isn't until A happens that B will be/come true."
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Originally Posted by vene-nemesis Music has been with the human race like forever! cant you understand that some of us cant just say no to the cheese burger? | Loving my P basses, MarkBass heads and Schroeder cabs. Life is good....
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03-16-2009, 07:23 PM
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Originally Posted by AmazingGracePlayer But if I have to start with "It isn't until A happens" | Why do you have to start your sentence like that? Are the grammar police holding a gun to your head?  |
03-16-2009, 07:24 PM
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03-16-2009, 07:25 PM
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Originally Posted by rustynuts "It isn't until A happens that B will be/come true." | This is correct. In Latin it would have to be optative/future optative, which is how I remember it.
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03-16-2009, 07:29 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Summit, NJ | | | So I have to change "It won't be until" to "It isn't until"?
There's no way it's going to work with "won't be"?
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03-16-2009, 07:32 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Rochelle, Illinois | | | Context is everything. Is this for a technical journal? A short story? A newspaper column? An entry for a grammar rodeo?
Fill us in on the specifics and we can pretty much guarantee that the correct form for your purpose will be hashed out.
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03-16-2009, 07:34 PM
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03-16-2009, 07:36 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Summit, NJ | | | It's for a grammar explanation homework thing I have to do for a class.
Basically, I have to start a sentence with "It won't be until something happens, will something else be true" in correct grammar.
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03-16-2009, 07:37 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Los Angeles / West Hollywood | | "It isn't until" sounds wrong.
Should be "Only after A happends, will B be true"
OR "Not until A happends, will B be true."
OR if you have to stick with the "It isn't until" stuff, then rustynuts suggestion would be right.
*I must be bored.*  |
03-16-2009, 07:38 PM
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Originally Posted by AmazingGracePlayer So I have to change "It won't be until" to "It isn't until"?
There's no way it's going to work with "won't be"? | Ummm....You're the one who said it had to be "It isn't until A happens". See your post above.
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03-16-2009, 07:40 PM
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03-16-2009, 07:41 PM
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Originally Posted by rustynuts Ummm....You're the one who said it had to be "It isn't until A happens". See your post above. | Ah my bad, I get the two mixed up because I'm hearing a lot of both right now.
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03-16-2009, 07:43 PM
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Originally Posted by Fassa Albrecht This is correct. In Latin it would have to be optative/future optative, which is how I remember it. | Quote:
Originally Posted by Fassa Albrecht If this was in Greek I could have told you the answer by now... | What dose this thread have to do with Latin or Greek? Please stop trying to show off. It's really depressing.
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03-16-2009, 07:44 PM
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Originally Posted by username n/a What dose this thread have to do with Latin or Greek? Please stop trying to show off. It's really depressing. | English grammar in comparison to Greek and Latin is a PAIN!!!
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03-16-2009, 07:46 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Summit, NJ | | Those two posts about Latin and Greek are as contributive as the two posts above this. 
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03-16-2009, 07:46 PM
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Originally Posted by Fassa Albrecht English grammar in comparison to Greek and Latin is a PAIN!!! | What dose that have to do with this thread? Oh that's right, it has nothing to do with this thread. Thanks for sharing, Fassa.
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