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Is this correct:
"He was sitting on his bed. He shivered and coughed very badly. I went up to him and gave him his medecine. In a short while it all stopped and he was back to normal again."
I know it would be better to use "was shivering and coughing" instead of "shivered and coughed", but it seems to me that in this case, given the context (we know that he shivered and he coughed until the medecine had its effet) the simple past tense can do the job as well. Am I right? Is the text acceptable?
"He was sitting on his bed. He shivered and coughed very badly. I went up to him and gave him his medecine. In a short while it all stopped and he was back to normal again."
I know it would be better to use "was shivering and coughing" instead of "shivered and coughed", but it seems to me that in this case, given the context (we know that he shivered and he coughed until the medecine had its effet) the simple past tense can do the job as well. Am I right? Is the text acceptable?