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It is a warm afternoon — too warm — sunny afternoon in late January as I write this. If I didn’t know better, I might even think that the frogs were going to arrive a month ahead of schedule this year. But there will be more of the cold white death before the green of life wins out again, announced by those little frogs who know better than I how to await the inevitable coming of a spring which I’m too anxious for.
Modifying the verb tense of the clause “the frogs were going to arrive a month ahead of schedule” to future, the correct form of “were going to arrive” becomes