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 #2 (permalink) Thu Jan 31, 2008 4:25 am Phrase "over the last 2 years, while analysing the situation" |
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1. Over last 2 years the adrupt increase in the pathology of the ear has been detected.
You need the present perfect, because the time period extends until now.
2. While analysing the situation it is necessary to consider it from two aspects.
Even though your sentence is not wrong, I would like it better if you considered it from "two points of view" or "two angles". (The latter one would be less formal.) But I think "aspects" is also perfectly good here. |
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Jamie (K)
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| #3 (permalink) Thu Jan 31, 2008 11:13 am Phrase "over the last 2 years, while analysing the situation" |
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| Jamie (K) wrote: |
1. Over last 2 years the adrupt increase in the pathology of the ear has been detected.
You need the present perfect, because the time period extends until now.
2. While analysing the situation it is necessary to consider it from two aspects.
Even though your sentence is not wrong, I would like it better if you considered it from "two points of view" or "two angles". (The latter one would be less formal.) But I think "aspects" is also perfectly good here. |
Thank you very much, Jamie. |
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| #4 (permalink) Thu Jan 31, 2008 11:52 am Phrase "over the last 2 years, while analysing the situation" |
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| Jamie (K) wrote: |
| 1. Over last 2 years the adrupt increase in the pathology of the ear has been detected. |
Over the last 2 years the abrupt increase ....
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| #5 (permalink) Thu Jan 31, 2008 12:36 pm Phrase "over the last 2 years, while analysing the situation" |
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| Torsten wrote: |
| Jamie (K) wrote: |
| 1. Over last 2 years the adrupt increase in the pathology of the ear has been detected. |
Over the last 2 years the abrupt increase .... |
You're right. I didn't notice that typo. |
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Jamie (K)
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| #6 (permalink) Thu Jan 31, 2008 12:52 pm Phrase "over the last 2 years, while analysing the situation" |
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| Torsten and Jamie, thank you very much. |
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| #7 (permalink) Thu Jan 31, 2008 12:54 pm Phrase "over the last 2 years, while analysing the situation" |
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| Jamie (K) wrote: |
| You're right. I didn't notice that typo. |
Well, to be honest I didn't notice it either -- it was the Firefox spell checker that did...
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