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Tapas Lover Posted 14 years ago
Grammar

Past tense or not?

Are you constantly contacting flu, cold intolerance, reduced of libido, deterioration of physical vitality, lumbago, memory deterioration, insomnia, constant urination, urinary incontinence, increase in wrinkles, easily feeling angry and decrease in body immunity?

'decrease' when should it be past tense? When it should not?
In this case, is it correct?

Thanks.
  

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You can contract a disease but I don't think that you can contract a cold intolerance or an increase in wrinkles for that matter. The sentence just seems like poor and careless English to me. "decrease" there is a noun and actually the article is dropped ( a decrease in (body) immunity) because the whole sentence is a list (where the articles are often omitted).

— Ivanhr

  • You can contract a disease but I don't think that you can contract a cold intolerance or an increase in wrinkles for that matter.
  • The sentence just seems like poor and careless English to me.
  • "decrease" there is a noun and actually the article is dropped ( a decrease in (body) immunity) because the whole sentence is a list (where the articles are often omitted).
  • Also, it should be "reduced libido", not "reduced of libido".
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You can contract a disease but I don't think that you can contract a cold intolerance or an increase in wrinkles for that matter. The sentence just seems like poor and careless English to me.

"decrease" there is a noun and actually the article is dropped (a decrease in (body) immunity) because the whole sentence is a list (where the articles are often omitted). Also, it shou
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Hmmmm...

Thanks. I will reconstruct it further.
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