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Jigneshbharati Posted 8 years ago
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Has been given to

This booklet has been given to you because you are starting

to take a medicine known as amiodarone. A healthcareprofessional will go through this book with you, explain what itall means and answer any questions you may have. The purposeof this booklet is to provide you with information regarding

https://www.nbt.nhs.uk/sites/default/files/attachments/Amiodarone%20Therapy_NBT002643.pdf

Please explain the use of "has been given vs was given to you because...

Why have they used present continuous "you are starting"?


  

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Jigneshbharati This booklet has been given to you because you are starting to take a medicine known as amiodarone. Why have they used present continuous "you are starting"? I'm a non-native so I can only explain it from my non-native perspective.

— Tkacka15

  • Jigneshbharati This booklet has been given to you because you are starting to take a medicine known as amiodarone.
  • Why have they used present continuous "you are starting"?
  • I'm a non-native so I can only explain it from my non-native perspective.
  • I imagine such a situation which may explain the tense usage there: You've just been in a drugstore/chemist and got the prescribed medicine; next, at home, you open the medicine package and read the manufacturer's leaflet already prepared for you, hence the present perfect passive tense (note that there is no past point in time given here; a point which would compel the author of the leaflet to use the past tense form "was").
  • The usage of the present continuous "you are starting to take", here, means that the arranged/planned action of "taking the medicine" begins now (or around now) and will prolong for some (determined) time.
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JigneshbharatiThis booklet has been given to you because you are starting to take a medicine known as amiodarone.
JigneshbharatiPlease explain the use of "has been given vs was given to you because...Why have they used present continuous "you are starting"?

I'm a non-native so I can only explain it from my non-native per

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