[Grammar] I feel better after I took the medicine.

[sitifan]

A: How do you feel now?

B: I ___ better after I ____ the medicine.

(A) feel; took (B) felt; took (C) was feeling; was taking (D) am feeling; take
[Kang Xuan, Taiwan]

The answer to the above question is option A. Do native speakers agree?

 

[tedmc]

A expresses the sequence of the two events most clearly.

 

[sitifan]

No, I don't.
Where did you find this question?

I quoted the question from a question bank provided by Kang Xuan Educational Publishing Group, Taiwan.
https://www.knsh.com.tw/

 

[kadioguy]

No, I don't.

So do you think that the answer is (B)?

 

[tedmc]

I feel better after I took the medicine is wrong,

Why is it wrong?

I would write: I feel better after taking the medicine.

 

[emsr2d2]

I feel better after I took the medicine is wrong,

Why is it wrong?

I would write: I feel better after taking the medicine.

You have precisely demonstrated why it's wrong. If the original choices had excluded the second "I" and included "feel/taking", that would have been a possible choice. It's the combination of "feel" and "took" that makes it wrong.

 

[Rover_KE]

It's a poor question – the best answer is not there.

I'm feeling better after taking the medicine.

Sitifan, notice how I added line breaks to improve the appearance and readability of your post. You haven't got the hang of that yet.

 

[Tdol]

The answer to the above question is option A. Do native speakers agree?

I don't- B) works.

 

[kadioguy]

You have precisely demonstrated why it's wrong. If the original choices had excluded the second "I" and included "feel/taking", that would have been a possible choice. It's the combination of "feel" and "took" that makes it wrong.

Should the 's' be omitted? Because you used 'that' and 'it' in the singular.

 

[tzfujimino]

No. The "that" refers to "the choice created as a result of the amendments emsr2d2 has suggested". The "it" is part of the cleft sentence.

 

[kadioguy]

No. The "that" refers to "the choice created as a result of the amendments emsr2d2 has suggested". The "it" is part of the cleft sentence.

I don't think so. "The original choice" (without "s") refers to option A, in my opinion.

Note this:

[...] It's the combination of "feel" and "took" that makes it wrong.

 

[tzfujimino]

I don't think so. "The original choice" (without "s") refers to option A, in my opinion.

"The original choices" means these:

(A) feel; took (B) felt; took (C) was feeling; was taking (D) am feeling; take

If the original choices had […] included "feel/taking" […]

means "If 'feel/taking' had been one of/among the original choices […] "

 

[kadioguy]

"The original choices" means these:

So:

1. Do you mean the four options 'would have been a possible choice'? That doesn't make sense to me.

2. How would you explain 'It's the combination of "feel" and "took" that makes it wrong'? Only option A is the combination of 'feel' and 'took'.

[...] If the original choices had excluded the second "I" and included "feel/taking", that would have been a possible choice. It's the combination of "feel" and "took" that makes it wrong.

 

[tzfujimino]

So:

1. Do you mean the four options 'would have been a possible choice'? That doesn't make sense to me.

No, I don't mean that at all.
Please read my posts above again.


2. How would you explain 'It's the combination of "feel" and "took" that makes it wrong'? Only option A is the combination of 'feel' and 'took'.

It's the combination of those words that makes the sentence wrong.

.

 

[kadioguy]

No, I don't mean that at all.
Please read my posts above again.

I am sorry but it still doesn't make sense to me. I don't think that emsr2d2 meant that.

It's the combination of those words that makes the sentence wrong.

Which one is the combination? Only option A. Other options don't include the combination.

I think that it will make little meaning to continue discussing. Let's wait and see until emsr2d2's reply.

 

[emsr2d2]

You have precisely demonstrated why it's wrong. If the original choices had excluded the second "I" and included "feel/taking", that would have been a possible choice. It's the combination of "feel" and "took" that makes it wrong.

Wow! I've just discovered how much conversation has been generated by my post. I'll try and clear it up. My "that" above referred to "feel/taking" being the correct choice if it had been offered. (It would, of course, also have necessitated the second "I" in the main sentence being omitted.

If there had been no second "I", and "feel/taking" had been offered as a choice, that [choice] would have been the correct one.