What had you intended to do?

[tufguy]

"What had you intended to do?" (It was a topic about travelling first two questions were 1) where did you go? 2) were you alone or in a group and what did you do?)

Is this sentence correct? If yes, then what it means?

Please check.

 

[Tdol]

Not really- the question implies that the people had originally had other plans which they didn't carry out.

 

[Rover_KE]

If yes, then what [STRIKE]it means[/STRIKE] does it mean?

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[tufguy]

Not really- the question implies that the people had originally had other plans which they didn't carry out.

The correct version would be "What were you intented to do?" Am I correct?

 

[tufguy]

:bad-word:

Sorry, we have to omit "does, did" when the question is a part of a bigger sentence this is what I read so that's why I did this.

 

[Matthew Wai]

You have to omit the auxiliary in 'Please tell me what it means' but not in your sentence.

 

[Tdol]

The correct version would be "What were you intented to do?" Am I correct?

No- the grammatically correct versions of your question would be What did you intend to do/What were you intending to do, but intend does not fit your suggested context where they actually went there.

 

[Matthew Wai]

"What had you intended to do?" (It was a topic about travelling first two questions were 1) where did you go? 2) were you alone or in a group and what did you do?)

Having read the red part above, I think 'intend' is supposed to be used in the third question rather than being used in a sentence in place of the first two questions.

 

[Tdol]

I assumed the same thing, Matthew, which is why intend doesn't work for me as the person has clarified that they went. Intend would work if they didn't go somewhere, but the first questions assumes that they went somewhere. The jump to asking about plans that didn't go through doesn't follow on from those questions.

 

[Matthew Wai]

"What had you intended to do?"

I take it to mean 'What had you intended to do in the place where you went?', which seems consistent with the first two questions.

 

[Raymott]

It's still strange.

A: What did you in your holidays?
B: I went to the beach.
A: And what had you intended to do?
B: Er ... I had intended to go to the beach. That's why I did it.

 

[Matthew Wai]

Is the following possible?

A: Where did you go?
B: I went to the beach.
A: Were you alone or in a group and what did you do there?
B: I was alone, sitting there and looking at the sea.
A: What had you intended to do?
B: I had intended to windsurf, but there was hardly any wind.

 

[Raymott]

It's OK, but it's artificial. A seems to know that B had intended doing something different before she even asks.
Now, if B had said "I ended up sitting alone ...", that might be a signal to ask about the original intentions.

 

[tufguy]

"what had you inteded to do?" It is grammatical but it seems so strange to me.

 

[Tdol]

It is asking what the person had planned to do, compared with what they ended up doing.It requires a point in the past to make sense- the intention came before whatever actually happened.