WBYeats
 
Reply Wed 19 Mar, 2014 02:13 pm
My sentence:

-But the result of the exercise is an important part of the psycholinguistic experiment you will take recently.

Is it natural and correct English to say WILL TAKE RECENTLY?
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Setanta
 
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Reply Wed 19 Mar, 2014 02:16 pm
Not in the language with which i am familiar. Recently means in the past. The sentence makes more sense if it reads ". . . you will take soon.
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JTT
 
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Reply Wed 19 Mar, 2014 04:58 pm
@WBYeats,
WB: My sentence:

-But the result of the exercise is an important part of the psycholinguistic experiment you will take recently.

Is it natural and correct English to say WILL TAKE RECENTLY?

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The following is what you want, WB.

-But the result of the exercise is an important part of the psycholinguistic experiment you will HAVE TAKEN recently.

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WBYeats
 
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Reply Thu 20 Mar, 2014 12:06 am
Thank you~
But for

-you will HAVE TAKEN recently

Does it mean at the time of speaking the thing has been taken?
PUNKEY
 
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Reply Thu 20 Mar, 2014 08:18 am
I wonder if he means this:

But the result of the exercise is an important part of the psycholinguistic experiment you will soon take.

McTag
 
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Reply Thu 20 Mar, 2014 02:08 pm
@WBYeats,
Quote:
But for
-you will HAVE TAKEN recently
Does it mean at the time of speaking the thing has been taken?


Yes, as mentioned above, "recently" means "in the recent past", a relatively short time ago.
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izzythepush
 
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Reply Thu 20 Mar, 2014 02:50 pm
@WBYeats,
It does, but I would say have recently taken.
JTT
 
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Reply Thu 20 Mar, 2014 03:27 pm
@izzythepush,
Izzy: It does, but I would say have recently taken.
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This is completely useless information which highlights what the LGSWE says about ENLs inability to describe how language is used. Language is all about nuance.

Izzy, like every other ENL, uses certain structures to say what he wants to say.
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JTT
 
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Reply Thu 20 Mar, 2014 03:29 pm
@PUNKEY,
I would think that WB fully understands the meaning of recently, Punkey.
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JTT
 
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Reply Fri 21 Mar, 2014 10:34 pm
@WBYeats,
-But the result of the exercise is an important part of the psycholinguistic experiment you will HAVE TAKEN recently.

should have been,

But the result of the exercise is an important part of the psycholinguistic experiment you will HAVE TAKEN PART IN recently.

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

WB: Does it mean at the time of speaking the thing has been taken?

Yes, that's what it means, WB. The students have finished taking part in the psycholinguistic experiment.
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JTT
 
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Reply Sat 22 Mar, 2014 04:07 pm
@izzythepush,
LGSWE: " ... will all find it (the LGSWE) useful to know which grammatical patterns are common and which are rare. Hitherto this information has been based on native-speaker intuition. However, native speakers rarely have accurate perceptions of these differences: ... "
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