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Amiyoko Posted 6 years ago
Grammar

Can you check these sentences?

I am studying for verb's meaning.

I would like to know whether or not these sentences are acceptable.

Can you say these sentences?

(1) The doctor considers the patient dead by tomorrow.

(2) Japan Federation of Bar Association considers him an attorney by the end of the year.

(3) The captain considers the sailor off my ship by midnight.

(4) The police considers the murderer arrested soon.

If you know, I would like to tell me know which sentences are acceptable from (1) to (4) sentences.

I' ll leave that matter entirely to you.

  

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None of those are right (or at best they are unusual). We don't normally use "considers" in this way to predict future events. g.

— GPY

  • None of those are right (or at best they are unusual).
  • We don't normally use "considers" in this way to predict future events.
  • g.
  • "The doctor considers that the patient will be dead by tomorrow" (though this probably wouldn't be the most common way to express the idea).
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None of those are right (or at best they are unusual). We don't normally use "considers" in this way to predict future events. We would say e.g. "The doctor considers that the patient will be dead by tomorrow" (though this probably wouldn't be the most common way to express the idea).

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Sorry, I'm not the OP. I just have a comment and a question, and you teachers thankfully could correct me if I'm wrong. I think it's unfair for the patient to use the verb "consider". It's unfair that the doctor considers that the patient will be dead by tomorrow; it makes me feel as if the doctor wants to end the patient's life or as if the patient was brain dead, for instance, and the doctor

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Teacher Cliv, thank you very much for your correction to the 2 sentences.

I'm not arguing but I'm really really not convinced of using "consider", I'm not saying it's wrong as a sentence or grammar but I feel it's unacceptable as a meaning in that specific condition because it has a sound of judging. I don't find any problem with using "think, believe" that you adde

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