Mar 15, 2007 12:32
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It is not clear yet whether such phenomena would be observed in patients with non-tumor diseases
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Is the grammar is OK in the following sentence: "It is not clear yet whether such phenomena would be observed in patients with non-tumor diseases"?
I mean"would" or "will" should be used?
Thanks in advance!
I mean"would" or "will" should be used?
Thanks in advance!
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Mar 15, 2007 12:39: NancyLynn changed "Term asked" from "Is the grammar is OK?" to "It is not clear yet whether such phenomena would be observed in patients with non-tumor diseases"
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English term (edited):
is the grammar is ok?
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Both, it depends!
Either could be fine, it just depends on what you are trying to actually say!
If you are trying to say that such-and-such a treatment is being given, and we don't know if the results are going to be visible or not, then you need 'will'
But if you are talking in a more hypothetical situation: if we were to give this treatment to these patients, we don't know whether these signs are going to be visible (or not), then you need 'would'
(BTW, I would stick with 'observable', I believe it is the correct jargon for this type of text.)
If you are trying to say that such-and-such a treatment is being given, and we don't know if the results are going to be visible or not, then you need 'will'
But if you are talking in a more hypothetical situation: if we were to give this treatment to these patients, we don't know whether these signs are going to be visible (or not), then you need 'would'
(BTW, I would stick with 'observable', I believe it is the correct jargon for this type of text.)
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English term (edited):
is the grammar is ok?
It looks
okay to me but I would change it around to look like this:
It is still unclear whether such phenomena would be evident in patients with non-tumor diseases.
But that is just me. You may get some better answers
It is still unclear whether such phenomena would be evident in patients with non-tumor diseases.
But that is just me. You may get some better answers
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Ledja
: I had a inkling that "observe" here didn't quite fit. "being evident" seems to make sense.
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English term (edited):
is the grammar is ok?
It is not yet clear whether such phenomena can be observed in patients with non-tumor diseases.
This is what I would say instead. HTH.
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NancyLynn
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| agree |
writeaway
: but all answers are just conjecture without seeing the actual context.
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| neutral |
Richard Benham
: I think this slightly changes the sense.
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| agree |
Anna Maria Augustine (X)
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| neutral |
Tony M
: I agree with RB; this introduces a nuance of meaning that _might_ be significant
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English term (edited):
is the grammar is ok?
Is it gramatically correct?
"would " is the right usage.
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Note added at 10 mins (2007-03-15 12:43:04 GMT)
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Yet it is not clear whether such phenomena would be evident in patients with non-tumor diseases.
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Note added at 10 mins (2007-03-15 12:43:04 GMT)
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Yet it is not clear whether such phenomena would be evident in patients with non-tumor diseases.
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Tony M
: I don't think we have enough context to definitely choose one or the other (and certainly, neither would be grammatically INcorrect); however, your re-positioning of 'yet' at the beginning of the sentence completely changes the sense of it!
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it is not clear yet whether such phenomena are to be observed in patients with non-tumor diseases
This skirts around the question raised by Tony. But the best solution would be to decide what you actually mean, and say that!
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