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www0935
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 Posted: Tue May 26, 2009 4:58 am Post subject: for five successive days |
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Please help me with the following question.
In the sentence, "He has been taking medicine for five successive days," can I say this way, "He has been taking medicine for five days"?
Do these two sentences have the same meaning?
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scottish_tiger
Joined: 16 Jul 2003
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Yes both sentences mean the same. The word 'successive' is only added to emphasis that the medication was taken daily over a 5 day period, as oppossed to randomly taking the medication 5 days out of a longer unstated period of time (eg 5 days out of 7).
Hope that was useful.
Good luck
Scottish Tiger
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