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Check whether this sentence is grammatically correct or not- you are busy at your work from last few days?

Asked by asifhussain1986 (4points) October 20th, 2010

check whether sentence is correct or not

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poisonedantidote's avatar

Not that im the best for this kind of thing, in fact ill probably have more spelling mistakes and grammatical errors in my answer than in your sentence. but…

“you are” should be “are you”. but you cant really use “are you” either because you say “last few days” at the end.

Personally, i would say “have you been busy at your place of work for the past few days”.

CyanoticWasp's avatar

Welcome to Fluther.

It may be a grammatically correct sentence—barely—but it is awkward at best.

For one thing, you’ve included it as a sentence fragment after the hyphen, which makes it technically “incomplete”, and because you’ve put it into the “main question” in your topic sentence it’s followed by a ”?” (because of Fluther defaults) which may not have been intended.

So let’s assume that you had asked:
Is the following a grammatically correct sentence?
“You are busy at your work from last few days.”

A native speaker would say something like “You’ve been busy at work the last few days.” (assuming that is your meaning) or if it’s a question: “Have you been busy at work the last few days?” or “Have you been busy at work recently?”

No one who speaks English regularly and well would say “last few days” without the article “the”, and we would very rarely use a form such as “from the last few days”.

The rules for using the word “from” (or “since”, which is somewhat similar) are hard for me to describe, so let me give some examples of ‘natural’ use:

I have been awake since Monday.
From June until September we enjoy Summer.
I have come from the future.
I have been at work since the start of the week.
I ran the race from start to finish.
I am still recovering from the last few days of my race. (“Recovering from” is a phrase unrelated to “from” some time. I would never say “I am working from the last few days.” Never.)

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janbb's avatar

The correct thing to say would be “Have you been busy at work the last few days?”

And Welcome to Fluther!

BarnacleBill's avatar

It depends if you are asking a question or if you are making an observation—

Question: “Have you been busy at work the last few days?”

Observation “You have been busy at work the last few days.” An observation would be something that you have noticed, and are calling attention to.

Aesthetic_Mess's avatar

It doesn’t sound right. I think it is what BarnacleBill said. You have been busy at work the last few days.

Aster's avatar

It sounds to me like something a Japanese or Chinese person would ask: “Have you been busy at your work the last few days?” It is not only incorrect, it’s confusing. But English may not be their first language.

Austinlad's avatar

Bravo, @CyanoticWasp. This is the kind of objective, well-articulated educational comment that helps the person asking the question.

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