Some events are happening from time to time and I'd like a colleague of mine to notify me about the occurrence of those events next time they happen. So, I'm writing to that colleague:
I'm looking forward to hearing from you about an event having happened again.
In response I'm expecting to receive a message of the following sort: "Hey, finally the event has happened again, log into the system and look at the consequences. "
My question is whether my message to the colleague is OK or not? What's wrong and how I could ask about the same in a grammatically correct way?
Answer
Your message is ungrammatical because it uses a present perfect, which refers to a past interval of time, to refer to a future event. You could say "... about a recurrence of such an event."
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