Wednesday, July 24, 2019

past tense - '... has been injured for about a week now' vs. '... was injured for about a week now'




Kitty: 'Jair, my middle finger has been injured for about a week now'. (1)


Kitty: 'Jair, my middle finger was injured for about a week now'. (2)



Could now be ungrammatical in (2)? Or, otherwise, (1) means that Kitty's finger hasn't yet healed, whereas (2) implies that that finger is no longer damaged -- e.g., it works?




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