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Franco le Suedois · 03-27-2006, 07:42 PM

In the specific case I presented (if it is a valid one), I believe the only option that would match would be that it occurs at the same time as the conjugated verb. Though this cannot be seen as a general rule since in your first example "Elle est heureuse d'être venue vous voir.", the perfect infinitive's action obviously occured before that of the main action.

I need more comments on the sentence I propose before I can give you a good answer. I'm not even sure if it's a valid perfect infinitive construction yet. What do you think?

EDIT: Does all this make any sense to you? It's quite complicated :P

03-27-2006, 07:42 PM	#6 (permalink)
Franco le Suedois Member Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Göteborg et Port Saint Louis du Rhone Posts: 46 Franco le Suedois came out of the blue	In the specific case I presented (if it is a valid one), I believe the only option that would match would be that it occurs at the same time as the conjugated verb. Though this cannot be seen as a general rule since in your first example "Elle est heureuse d'être venue vous voir.", the perfect infinitive's action obviously occured before that of the main action. I need more comments on the sentence I propose before I can give you a good answer. I'm not even sure if it's a valid perfect infinitive construction yet. What do you think? EDIT: Does all this make any sense to you? It's quite complicated :P Last edited by Franco le Suedois; 03-27-2006 at 07:44 PM.
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