What is wrong with you lately?
Hi, everyone.
I was watching a tv series, named Lucifer, and I heard a character telling another the following: "What is wrong with you lately?"
Shouldn't it be "What has been wrong with you lately?"?
What's the difference in meaning between the two?
Thanks!
Top answer
" certainly sounds better. The grammatical difference is that one is in simple tense and the other is in perfect tense.
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"What has been wrong with you lately." certainly sounds better. The grammatical difference is that one is in simple tense and the other is in perfect tense.
0"What is wrong with you lately?" This is slightly awkward grammar, but is easy to understand and clearly refers to a condition that still exists.
"What has been wrong with you lately?" This does not necessarily make it clear that the speaker thinks the problem still exists at the present time..
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