"Has quit for a while" - ambiguous?

[Nightmare85]

Hello,
I have some problems with this sentence:
I thought he has quit for a while.

To me it sounds as if there were 2 meanings:
1. A while ago he quit, and he is not coming back.
2. He has quit now but after a while he will come back.

It's wrong to say:
I thought he has been quitting for a while. (at least it would mean he's been trying to quit, but it does not make that much sense.)
That's why I use "has quit".
However, it sounds ambiguous.

It's not as:
We have married for 2 years.
It's okay because if the marriage should take 2 years, it would be:
We are married for 2 years.

P.S: By the way: Is "quit" okay, or is it "quitted"?

Cheers!

 

[bhaisahab]

Hello,
I have some problems with this sentence:
I thought he has quit for a while. You have a bit of a mixture of tenses here as well as other problems. "I thought that he had quit" is correct, "I thought that he had quit a while ago" is correct.

To me it sounds as if there were 2 meanings:
1. A while ago he quit, and he is not coming back.
2. He has quit now but after a while he will come back.

It's wrong to say:
I thought he has been quitting for a while. (at least it would mean he's been trying to quit, but it does not make that much sense.)
That's why I use "has quit".
However, it sounds ambiguous.

It's not as:
We have been married for 2 years. This is correct.
It's okay because if the marriage should take 2 years, it would be:
We are married for 2 years. This is ok, to mean the same as above.

P.S: By the way: Is "quit" okay, or is it "quitted"? It's "quit".

Cheers!

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