Timeline for "Donna became quickly irritated"
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| Jan 1, 2020 at 22:52 | comment | added | JeremyC | The slight potential difference in meaning between the sentence in the Question and @MichaelHarvey's preferred version might be illustrated by adding a few words at the beginning: "After contracting gout Donna became quickly irritated." So Donna's temper was habitually short. If what you mean is that on one occasion she became irritated quickly then the second version would be better, as he suggests. | |
| Jan 1, 2020 at 22:34 | comment | added | Michael Harvey | I would be inclined to say or write 'Donna quickly became irritated'. | |
| Jan 1, 2020 at 21:43 | history | answered | Acccumulation | CC BY-SA 4.0 |