Tham khảo tài liệu 'the grammar of the english verb phrase part 52', ngoại ngữ, ngữ pháp tiếng anh phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | 350 7. Absolute tense forms referring to the post-present evoked by the context. There is no implicature of nonfulfilled intention in He said he was going to do something about it unless we add something like but it still looks the same to me. A form built with has have been going to receives a continuative interpretation which implies that the situation of having the intention leads up to and includes t0 and hence that there has not been actualization of the intended situation yet. You ve been going to talk to the landlord for months. implies but you still haven t done it. You have been going to buy a tennis racket of your own for years but you still come to borrow mine . If it does not imply a present intention be going to implies that the speaker s prediction is based on present evidence or knowledge. Be going to expressing present predictability of a post-present actualization Apart from a present intention there are various other factors that can render the post-present non actualization of a situation predictable at t0. For the use of is are going to it suffices that the speaker s prediction is based on present evidence or knowledge. In many cases the post-present situation is predictable because there are signs in the present of what is going to happen. In other words the postpresent situation is predictable because its origin or beginning lies in the present. There s going to be a row in a minute. implies for example that the speaker can see that some people are getting upset. Clauses belonging to a nonintensional context receive a transparent de re interpretation i. e. their truth is evaluated in relation to the real world. It is typical of such an interpretation that the truth value of the clause is not affected when a referring expression in the clause is replaced by an identical expression i. e. by an expression with the same referent . Thus since in the real world the capital of France and Paris have the same referent we can replace
