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Vincent Teo Posted 17 years ago
Grammar

Taking a / their bath

Can I say,

(a) After taking a / their bath and they put on their clothes.

(b) After taking a bath, he changed into a new clothes.
  

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(a) After taking a / their bath and they put on their clothes. After taking a bath they put on their clothes. After taking their bath they put on their clothes.

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  • (a) After taking a / their bath and they put on their clothes.
  • After taking a bath they put on their clothes.
  • After taking their bath they put on their clothes.
  • (b) After taking a bath, he changed into a new clothe s.
  • After taking a bath he put on his new clothes.
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(a) After taking a / their bath and they put on their clothes.

After taking a bath they put on their clothes.
After taking their bath they put on their clothes.

(b) After taking a bath, he changed into a new clothes.
After taking a bath he put on his new clothes.
- Change means to take off and put on. If he was bathing, he would not be taking off an
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In the U.K. people more commonly talk about 'having a bath'.
The phrase 'taking a bath' is more common in literature.
Both 'taking a bath' and 'having a bath' are perfectly correct, it is a matter of choice.
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In American English, we always "take" a shower or bath.

It also can be used idiomatically the past tense, meaning to lose a bundle of money in a short peiod of time:
The traders were dumping more oil on the market, driving the price down and at that moment, refiners took a bath.
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