Timeline for Were admitted Vs had been admitted
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| Dec 18, 2014 at 11:08 | comment | added | QOI | No, you should use the past simple and present perfect for that, too. E.g. How many days were you admitted to hospital? (if he's already out) or How many days have you been admitted to hospital? (if he's still there). | |
| Dec 18, 2014 at 10:40 | comment | added | user4084 | Also if i want to know that for how many days he had been admited to hospital. "Should i Use "Had you admited to hospital for how many days?" | |
| Dec 18, 2014 at 10:24 | comment | added | user4084 | Also if i want to know that for how many days he had been admited to hospital. "Should i Use "Had you admited to hospital for how many days?" | |
| Dec 18, 2014 at 10:23 | comment | added | QOI | Yes, but again, another past tense has to be present in the sentence: Have you been here before? (present perfect); Had you been here before I visited? (past perfect + past simple). | |
| Dec 18, 2014 at 10:11 | comment | added | user4084 | Also,can we ask questions as like "Had you been........?" Give me some other examples. | |
| Dec 18, 2014 at 10:01 | comment | added | QOI | Then you have to use the simple past (were you admitted to hospital?). You can't use the past perfect if you're not already talking in a past tense, which you weren't doing. | |
| Dec 18, 2014 at 9:53 | comment | added | user4084 | Thats what, I want to asked him about past of his past. fist past he was fine and recuparating at home about this i was aware. but i was not sure whether he had been admited to hospital before that or not. | |
| Dec 18, 2014 at 7:28 | comment | added | QOI | I think you are not understanding the use of the past perfect correcly. If you want to talk about something in the past, you use the past tense (were admitted). If you are already talking in a past tense and you want to talk about something further in the past, you use the past perfect (had been admitted). In the example you provide, you are talking in present (e.g. ‘How [are] you feeling now?’, ‘I am fine now’), so you can't use the past perfect direcly. | |
| Dec 18, 2014 at 4:31 | comment | added | user4084 | Thanks for answer but i this Had you been is correct hear. I want to refer past of past. He had been admited in Hospital. recuparated . and came to office. If i use were admited it just mean that i am only asking about his past hospitalisation status. | |
| Dec 17, 2014 at 13:28 | history | answered | QOI | CC BY-SA 3.0 |