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Another question. The following is my revised writing: It's raining outside, and I'm going to make a couple of pancakes from now. I have some buttermilk pancake mix, so I'll use it. This mix makes nice and glutenous pancakes. I'll add some cinnamon and erythritol. I won't add any eggs because I have only a few eggs left. But I know they will be very good. I kept some parts as original because I believe it's okay. But I have a question. All four correctors I had had a problem with the first sentence and corrected 'from now' to some versions. I don't understand what is exactly wrong there because I think I've heard lecturers or instructors say something like "I'll explain it today from now, but before that let me tell you ...." How am I wrong here?
Apr 8, 2024 4:50 AM
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Since "from now" follows "pancakes", the listener will interpret it to modify "pancakes". But what is a "pancake from now"? I have no idea what that might mean.
April 9, 2024
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April 8, 2024
One way of thinking about it . . . what do you mean by 'from now'? Why would it even be necessary? FROM NOW generally means, starting now, and is more commonly used as FROM NOW ON. e.g. "I don't want to be tired all the time. From now on, I'm going to bed on time." I suppose FROM NOW can also man 'as opposed to from some other time period', but that doesn't seem relevant to your sentence. So, I don't think it's so much of a grammar problem as a problem of it not making sense. If you make pancakes, we can assume you are making them at the time you are talking about. FROM is the most problematic part. Are you going to be making pancakes from now until some future time? You could just say NOW, but even that feels unecessary.
April 8, 2024
Another problem is that “it’s raining outside” doesn’t connect to “making pancakes” It’s raining (outside isn’t necessary, it isn’t raining inside) so for now I’m going to stay in and make pancakes.
April 8, 2024
"I'll explain it today 'for' now. So you could have written : "I'm going to make a couple of pancakes now/right now." OR "I'm going to make a couple of pancakes for now and then go shopping when the rain stops."
April 8, 2024
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