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To: janetjanet998
In about 10 years, there's not going to have been a single Trump supporter that exists anywhere in the country

It hurts my brain to try and parse that quote. What tense is that? Future subjunctive infinite past-imperfect?

Donald Trump was not perfect. Only one man in history was. But he will stand far taller in history than this Lilliputian punk Kinzinger.

68 posted on 07/10/2022 8:53:33 AM PDT by ChuxsterS
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To: ChuxsterS

‘What tense is that?’

itcan be classified as the perfect future, indicating an action that will be concluded before some other time, either specified or not...example:

‘I’m going to have finished cleaning the entire house before my wife comes home from her Mah Jongg group...or else...’

because of the unfinished and conditional action of the sentence, it is technically rendered as subjunctive, until it actually happens...


109 posted on 07/10/2022 10:10:56 AM PDT by IrishBrigade
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