Hi
Do you find the following sentences natural, especially the yellow parts? Any suggestion is welcome.
The meeting had just started when I discovered a very bad headache, mixed with nausia.
The meeting had just started when I developed a very bad headache, mixed with nausia.
Thanks,
Tom
Do you find the following sentences natural, especially the yellow parts? Any suggestion is welcome.
The meeting had just started when I discovered a very bad headache, mixed with nausia.
The meeting had just started when I developed a very bad headache, mixed with nausia.
Thanks,
Tom
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"developed" is OK, but the time references in your sentence make it sound as if the headache developed more or less at once -- perhaps more rapidly than a very bad headache normally would. You could alternatively say "The meeting had just started when I began to develop..."
The correct spelling is nausea. "mixed with nausea" is possible, or you could condense things and say "...a very bad nauseous headache."
nausea
I wouldn't use a comma.
CJ
It doesn't sound natural at all. Contexts with movies, meeting, and events, the voices needs to be passive as a meeting can not start by itself. Perhaps you want to say:
The meeting had just [been] started when I [began to feel nauseous with] a very bad headache.
CJ
Example: A: what smells so good!
B: I am cooking a turkey in the oven (nominative case).
My curiosity is: is this syntactically equivalent to "a turkey is cooking in the oven"? This certainly paints a rather comical picture, doesn't it?
Your sentence reminds of this thread.
http://www.english-test.net/forum/ftopic25304.html
Tom