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Hi,Could you please check for me if I have made any mistakes in these sentences?I feel bloated and burped. (Adjective here)Cruciferous veggies might cause me bloating and burping. (Adjective here)I have suffered form bloat and burp recently. (Noun here)Cheers

Anonymous · Accepted Answer

John AkiI feel bloated and burped. (Adjective here)

"Burped" does not make a very good adjective. Maybe "gassy" or even "burpy".

John AkiCruciferous veggies might cause me bloating and burping. (Adjective here)

"Give me", not "cause me", and they are nouns. That is not a very natural utterance. If you want adjectives, try "burping fits." "Bloating" does not make a good adjective because "bloated" is natural.

John AkiI have suffered form bloat and burp recently. (Noun here)

You can't use "burp" as the name of a disorder. You could informally say "the burps". "Bloat" is OK in that meaning, but it sounds like a veterinary diagnosis.

CalifJim · Answer

John AkiI feel bloated and burped.

'burped' will never do. That applies to babies. Only babies can "feel burped", but we never ask them how they feel because they can't talk yet anyway.

We all know that babies need to be burped after every feeding.
Have you burped the baby yet? Who is going to burp the baby?

I feel bloated, and I've been belching/burping a lot lately. 'belch' is a bit more refined, but only a bit.

John AkiCruciferous ~~veggies~~ vegetables might cause me bloating and ~~burping.~~ belching.

'cruciferous' is a very high-class word. 'veggies' is not. So they don't go together. You can tone down the register with this:

Veggies from the cabbage family tend to cause me to feel bloated or to belch.
Or ... tend to make me feel bloated or belch.

John AkiI have suffered ~~form~~ from bloat and burp recently.

from bloating and belching

CJ

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