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O que significa I was to see snow! ?
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@philipjacobsson No, you can, it's just quite literary.
"to be to" generally = "will"/"going to"
"I am to die!" = "I am going to die!"
"I was to see snow!" = "I was going to see snow!"
You will only see this in books or very formal language.
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@philipjacobsson No, you can, it's just quite literary.
"to be to" generally = "will"/"going to"
"I am to die!" = "I am going to die!"
"I was to see snow!" = "I was going to see snow!"
You will only see this in books or very formal language.
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2 of ba q????? all muy bien de Dia of
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@philipjacobsson You can assure me but you are still mistaken.
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@philipjacobsson I've provided a link to the grammar point if you want to take a look.
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@philipjacobsson No permission was requested, I posted it 10 minutes ago, look up.
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@Gejemica is correct. "I was to see snow!" Is very formal english. Like how people used to speak. It is still used in literature and by European people i believe.
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I'll agree the absence of context doesn't help, like with many other questions. While the sentence makes me think of someone writing their memoirs rather than talking about the weekend (unless they were being ironically pretentious) it was a grammatically correct sentence and I wouldn't say it's wrong because it's not.
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@philipjacobsson I admire the confidence with which you argue with native speakers on what is and isn't correct ;)
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@Gejemica Just because I'm not a native English speaker it doesn't mean I have to bad at that language. I might have been wrong regarding the grammar with "I was to see snow", but you got it wrong when you claimed that you were assured even though you said I was wrong, which didn't make sense.
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Well there are quite a few opinions on this... 😅 I'll just say as someone from the US it sounds weird, but as someone else mentioned, it may be common in UK English.
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