Patients have had symptoms
1) Patients have been having symptoms such as nausea and fatigue.
2) Patients have had symptoms such as nausea and fatigue.
What is the difference between (1) and (2)?
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Rizan Malik What is the difference between (1) and (2)? To my ear the patients in (1) are continuing to have these symptoms. It sounds like a description of something that is happening at the time the speaker says this.
- Rizan Malik What is the difference between (1) and (2)?
- To my ear the patients in (1) are continuing to have these symptoms.
- It sounds like a description of something that is happening at the time the speaker says this.
- And (2) strikes me as part of a summary of what patients have experienced when they had some unnamed disease.
- They might not even have the disease anymore.
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Rizan MalikWhat is the difference between (1) and (2)?
To my ear the patients in (1) are continuing to have these symptoms. It sounds like a description of something that is happening at the time the speaker says this.
And (2) strikes me as part of a summary of what patients have experienced when they had some unnamed disease. They might not even ha
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