The Time Will Come / Where I Work
Jan 31st 2012 01:18
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(A-1) The time will soon come when you will have to decide your attitude.
(A-2) The time will soon come when you have to decide your attitude.
(B-1) This office, where I work, is convenient to the station.
(B-2) This office, where I'm working, is convenient to the station.
Which do you think is correct in each pair?
(A-2) The time will soon come when you have to decide your attitude.
(B-1) This office, where I work, is convenient to the station.
(B-2) This office, where I'm working, is convenient to the station.
Which do you think is correct in each pair?
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B-1 and B-2 are problematic for the same reason: the phrase "convenient to the station" is incomprehensible, because a station is an inanimate thing. How could anything ever be convenient, or inconvenient for that matter, to an inanimate thing? It doesn't make any sense. I have no idea what the sentence is supposed to mean.
(C-1) This office, where I work, is near to the station, so it's very convenient.
(C-2) This office, where I'm working, is near to the station, so it's very convenient.
C-1 and C-2 are both valid but not quite the same.
You'd be more likely to use C-1 if you are employed at that office more or less permanently (e.g., it's your employer's only office location, or you never go to any of the others).
C-2 makes more sense if you work at various locations at different times but are currently working at that particular office (e.g., because your employer is doing a contract job there for a few weeks, or maybe your employer has several offices and get transferred around sometimes but they've assigned you to that one right now).