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What do they mean?
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ikram jeseen
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What do they mean?
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Please urgently help me!
What do these sentences mean?
"You are to do it" /"He is to visit his gradfather soon"
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9 Aug 2012
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ueslteacher
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Here be has modality. See the cases: be to do something used to say what must or should be doneI am to call them once I reach the airport.You are to report this to the police.What is to be done about this problem?be to do something used to say what is arranged to happenThey are to be married in June.
Taken from here http://oald8.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/dictionary/be_2So in your first sentence it says, "You must do it, bc you were appointed to do it or there is some kind of an agreement"In the second sentence it says, "He has arranged a visit to his grandfather and he is going to go"Sophia
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9 Aug 2012
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ikram jeseen
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Thank you Sophia, my doubt is cleared. |
9 Aug 2012
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