• Exciting news! With our new Ad-Free Premium Subscription you can enjoy a distraction-free browsing experience while supporting our site's growth. Without ads, you have less distractions and enjoy faster page load times. Upgrade is optional. Find out more here, and enjoy ad-free learning with us!

[Grammar] tense correction

Status
Not open for further replies.

bartek1988

Member
Joined
Nov 22, 2012
Member Type
Student or Learner
Native Language
Polish
Home Country
Poland
Current Location
Poland
Hello, I am wondering if the underlined parts are correct in terms of tenses. The fragments are taken from a dialogue between 2 people who discuss how one of them has been perceiving her body in the course of an eating disorder, and how she has been dealing with anger (before the illness, she would shout at others; at the beginning of the illness, she would bottle up emotions; now when the illness is less severe, she again shouts). Thank you for your help.

1) A: now if you are seeing yourself fat less and less often, does it mean that you are less angry or do you do something else with this anger?
B: Then I rather shout at others.
A: So you are returning to what you did in the past?

2) A: so now you start getting angry with others, right? How do your parents react to your anger?

3) A: Your self-perception is also changing, right? Is it more often closer to what you see in photos and to what others say about your appearance?
 
Last edited by a moderator:

teechar

Moderator
Staff member
Joined
Feb 18, 2015
Member Type
English Teacher
Native Language
English
Home Country
Iraq
Current Location
Iraq
The context/meaning is not very clear. Is it about the eating disorder or about that person's reaction to it? Why would she shout at others before the onset of the problem?
 

Tdol

Editor, UsingEnglish.com
Staff member
Joined
Nov 13, 2002
Member Type
Native Language
British English
Home Country
UK
Current Location
Japan
The one that sounds strange to me is I rather shout. It may have been I'd rather shout, which is still a bit strange, but people often talk strangely and evasively when dealing with such issues. The rest sounds to me like fairly normal tense use in speech.
 
Status
Not open for further replies.
Top