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"was my operation successful?" or " Have my operation been successful?"
if I had an operation yesterday,I want to know if my operation was successful.Should I ask my doctor,'Was my operation successful?"or"Have my operation been successful?" , any difference between them? Thanks.
2 gen 2012 02:07
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Was my surgery succesful? Has my surgery been succesful? - Both are correct, but grammatically speaking we use the Simple Past to express the idea that an action started and finished at a specific time in the past.
2 gennaio 2012
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Was THE operation successful?
It is open to question as to whose operation it is.
This one is simple. The operation was yesterday, so past simple.
2 gennaio 2012
Thank you!
3 gennaio 2012
Use the sentence in the simple past because you said when it happened, "yesterday". :)
2 gennaio 2012
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Canny
Competenze linguistiche
Cinese (mandarino), Inglese
Lingua di apprendimento
Inglese
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