Posted: Nov 11, 2016 1:29 pm
lofuji wrote:Thommo wrote:Out of idle curiousity, does anyone know if there's any technical restrictions or distinctions between the following phrases:-
- The new laptop will be imminently arriving.
- The new laptop will be arriving imminently.
or even
- The new laptop will imminently be arriving .
This has nothing to do with the question, but it reminds me of the station announcements on the MTR here in Hong Kong: "The train to Central is arriving". It always grates on my ears, because a train has either arrived or it hasn't. The verb "arrive" is not capable of continuous action.
Still sounds better than "The train is coming"