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Grammar
Verb Tense - Accounts or Accounted / Article Needed
Although there are many medical terms here, my problem is confusion with what verb tense to use for "account" - accounts or accounted and also if "minor vascular injury" needs an article in the following sentence.
Since the intra-abdominal abscess was far from the pseudoaneurysm, minor vascular injury during the excision of the xiphoid process most likely accounts for its formation.
Since the intra-abdominal abscess was far from the pseudoaneurysm, minor vascular injury during the excision of the xiphoid process most likely accounts for its formation.
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Accounts or accounted -- Both are OK. It can be looked at either as the past cause or the present diagnosis. An article is unnecessary with injury , which can be uncountable, and here is better so, I think.
- Accounts or accounted -- Both are OK.
- It can be looked at either as the past cause or the present diagnosis.
- An article is unnecessary with injury , which can be uncountable, and here is better so, I think.
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Accounts or accounted-- Both are OK. It can be looked at either as the past cause or the present diagnosis. An article is unnecessary with injury, which can be uncountable, and here is better so, I think.
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