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Anonymous  +  263205 Wed, 06 Sep 06 04:31 AM

Dear Group,

Are the tenses in this sentence correct?

"MY 70-year-old mother has been diabetic for the past 10 years and the drugs
prescribed to her had affected her kidneys."

Please comment, thank you.

Regards,

Jeeva
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Nef  +  263247 Wed, 06 Sep 06 06:13 AM
 Anonymous wrote:

Dear Group,

Are the tenses in this sentence correct?

"MY 70-year-old mother has been diabetic for the past 10 years and the drugs
prescribed to her had affected her kidneys."

Please comment, thank you.

Regards,

Jeeva

MY 70-year-old mother has been diabetic for the past 10 years

The idea is that she has been diabetic and still is diabetic.

and the drugs prescribed to her had affected her kidneys.

The idea is that the drugs affected her kidneys in the past, but aren't affecting her kidneys now.

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If her kidneys are still affected, you could say

and the drugs prescribed to her have affected her kidneys
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