Hucky
Member
- Joined
- Feb 15, 2011
- Member Type
- English Teacher
- Native Language
- German
- Home Country
- Switzerland
- Current Location
- Switzerland
Hi,
Herewith, I`d like to pick up an issue formerly touched on in passing. Since it had but a marginal existence there, I deem it recommendable to establish it as a thread of its own. Let me come down to brass tacks.
The other day a colleague of mine spoke of an American student of his who always uses a future tense in a temporal clause justifying himself by asserting that this is the common way to do it in the US now.
E.g.: As soon as / when I will arrive, I´ll call you up.
What do the American members make of this assertion?
Hucky
Herewith, I`d like to pick up an issue formerly touched on in passing. Since it had but a marginal existence there, I deem it recommendable to establish it as a thread of its own. Let me come down to brass tacks.
The other day a colleague of mine spoke of an American student of his who always uses a future tense in a temporal clause justifying himself by asserting that this is the common way to do it in the US now.
E.g.: As soon as / when I will arrive, I´ll call you up.
What do the American members make of this assertion?
Hucky