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Reegis Posted 10 years ago
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The patient was getting over the operation.
Good evening,
recently I have found this sentence:
The patient was getting over the operation.
And it made me wonder if such a sentence might be correct as a standalone sentence.
1) Can it be an answer to the question: What did the patient yesterday?
2) Doesn't it lack something? For example some feature that is specific for the past continuous tense like "Yesterday at this time the patient..."?
recently I have found this sentence:
The patient was getting over the operation.
And it made me wonder if such a sentence might be correct as a standalone sentence.
1) Can it be an answer to the question: What did the patient yesterday?
2) Doesn't it lack something? For example some feature that is specific for the past continuous tense like "Yesterday at this time the patient..."?
Top answer
Reegis What did the patient yesterday? The question would be 'What did the patient do yesterday? Your original sentence is an unlikely response to that question, though 'Nothing.
- Reegis What did the patient yesterday?
- The question would be 'What did the patient do yesterday?
- Your original sentence is an unlikely response to that question, though 'Nothing.
- She/H ewas getting ober the operation' is possible.
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ReegisWhat did the patient yesterday?The question would be 'What did the patient do yesterday? Your original sentence is an unlikely response to that question, though 'Nothing. She/H ewas getting ober the operation' is possible.
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fivejedjonThe question would be 'What did the patient do yesterday?Yes, of course, it was just a 'typo'.
fivejedjonYour original sentence is an unlikely response to that question, though 'Nothing. She/H ewas getting ober the operation' is possible.Thanks!
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