Shoulders dislocated

[namloan]

"Yesterday while playing tennis, my ex-girlfriend was slightly injured, her skin felt off and her best friend got severely wounded, her shoulders dislocated"

Is this long sentence grammatical and natural in spoken English?

Thank you very much

 

[Rover_KE]

It's not natural to say 'her skin felt off'. I don't know what this means. I hope you don't mean 'her skin fell off'.:shock:

The second part of the sentence would be better as '. . .her best friend got severely wounded, dislocating her shoulders.'

(Dangerous game, tennis.)

Rover

 

[Barb_D]

You may mean she got a scrape. As a kid, you probably spent most of your time with scraped knees.

She fell and scraped her elbos pretty badly. (Even a bad scrape is not a "serious injury," assuming infection does not follow. And it wouldn't with my mother, who insisted on thoroughly washing those scrapes. Ow!)

 

[freezeframe]

My guess is "skin felt off" means it was tender or bruised... it felt "off". But I'm just guessing. It is a strange phrase.

 

[SoothingDave]

Did she really dislocate both shoulders?

 

[Rover_KE]

Happens all the time in tennis.

 

[namloan]

Dear members and Teachers,

- What I mean by "her skin felt off" is "her skin grazed". So in this context, I must say "her skin grazed" or "her skin scraped", correct? :-D

Thank you very much

 

[Raymott]

Happens all the time in tennis.

What? Bilateral dislocations of the shoulder? Or do you mean one at a time at different times?
It would be a very strange injury that would dislocate both shoulders.

Here's one case study though:

"However, simultaneous bilateral anterior shoulder dislocation is rare: only about 30 cases have been described in the literature"
http://www.josonline.org/pdf/v13i3p303.pdf

Here's another
"Bilateral shoulder dislocation is uncommon ..."
http://www.sicot.org/resources/File/IO_reports/02-2003/4-02-2003.pdf

 

[namloan]

Dear members and Teachers,

- What I mean by "her skin felt off" is "her skin grazed". So in this context, I must say "her skin grazed" or "her skin scraped", correct? :-D

Thank you very much

 

[Mr_Ben]

Dear members and Teachers,

- What I mean by "her skin felt off" is "her skin grazed". So in this context, I must say "her skin grazed" or "her skin scraped", correct? :-D

Thank you very much

She grazed/scraped her elbow/knee/chin. It's usually active and you have to say what it was she grazed or scraped.