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Eng_fanatic Posted 21 years ago
Grammar

Is this right?

After surgery u will be up and running in a month.

thks.
  

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If you change the u to you, yes.

— Nona the brit

  • If you change the u to you, yes.
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If you change the u to you, yes.
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Could it be possible to write:

After the surgery...

or it's not right to use the article here?
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'The' may actually be preferable. It specifies surgery. It's not surgery in general, because some surgeries take less/more than one month before your're 'up and running'.

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I think in BrE, if you found the sentence in a letter from a (rather informal) medical practioner, it would read either:

1. After surgery, you'll be up and running in a month.

2. After the operation, you'll be up and running in a month.

(Of course, in a BrE context, it wouldn't be true anyway, as after surgery you'd contract some life-threatening infection that was even
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