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Mr. Tom Posted 8 years ago
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Reduced to a skelton

Hi

Are these sentences natural in spoken and written English? Any suggestions please?

  1. When I saw him two years later, he had reduced to a skeleton.
  2. What's wrong with you! You are literally reducing to a skeleton.
  3. Reduced to a skeleton, he returned home three years later.

Thanks,

Tom

  

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I think you get reduced to a skeleton. I don't think you can reduce to one. 1.

— Anonymous

  • I think you get reduced to a skeleton.
  • I don't think you can reduce to one.
  • 1.
  • When I saw him two years later, he had been reduced to a skeleton.
  • 2.
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I think you get reduced to a skeleton. I don't think you can reduce to one.

1. When I saw him two years later, he had been reduced to a skeleton.

2. What's wrong with you! You are literally being reducing to a skeleton.

3. This one is OK because "Having been" is understood.

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