I’ve coughed for two weeks, and I’m all right now.

[Alice Chu]

Please tell me if my understanding is correct.

1) I’ve coughed for two weeks, and I’m all right now.

It means the speaker coughed for two weeks and stopped coughing before now. The repeated short-duration cough lasted for two weeks and stopped before now.

2) I’ve been coughing for two weeks, and I still don’t feel well.

It means the speaker started coughing two weeks ago and hasn’t stopped coughing at the moment of speaking. The repeated short-duration cough lasted for two weeks until now.

 

[emsr2d2]

Please tell me if my understanding is correct.

1) I’ve coughed I was coughing/I had a cough for two weeks no comma here and but I’m all right now.

It means the speaker coughed had a cough for two weeks and stopped coughing before now the time of speaking. The repeated short-duration cough lasted for two weeks and stopped before now the time of speaking.

2) I’ve been coughing for two weeks, and I still don’t feel well.

It means the speaker started coughing two weeks ago and hasn’t stopped coughing at the moment of speaking. The repeated short-duration cough has lasted for two weeks until now so far.

Note my changes above.
The interpretation in sentence 1 that the cough stopped before the time of speaking has less to do with the tense and much more to do with the words "but I'm all right now". You can apply the same logic to sentence 2.

 

[5jj]

Despite all we have said in previous threads, you are still trying to infer too much meaning from the use of tenses and aspects, Context and co-text are more important than tenses and aspects in giving and extracting full meaning.

 

[jutfrank]

You keep making the same mistakes and asking the same questions, apparently not listening to our advice. Please stop making up your own sentences and then trying to work out what you mean. Just focus on real, authentic examples of use and go from there.

 

[5jj]

I have locked this thread. We have devoted more than enough time to dealing with these self-made sentences and had our advice ignored.