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【英国问答】"divorced"的用法

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发表于 2016-8-2 11:30:00 | 显示全部楼层 |阅读模式

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I have tried to describe the status of one of my friends who became single again a few years ago. May I use ‘She was divorced’ or ‘She is divorce’ or ‘She divorced’?
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Pamela
Agnes Deacon
注意双引号的使用Hello Pamela. Thanks for asking that question.
Let's first look at what you should say regarding your friend and her divorce. In spoken English, it's more normal to say "She got divorced" which would describe the "event" that happened in the past. You could also add a time reference to that to give it more detail, like "She got divorced a few years ago" or "She got divorced a while back", or even "She got divorced in 2005".
But if you want to describe her status now, you'd have to say "She is divorced". By the way, "She is divorce" is grammatically incorrect. You need to say "divorced" instead. So that's how to refer to the event that happened to your friend and her current status.
Moving onto the "She was divorced", this sounds like something we would read in a book or a biography and would often imply the person was no longer alive and we are recounting details from their life. For example.
Agnes Deacon married in June 1970 but was divorced soon after due to her husband's infidelity.
So now you can successfully describe your friend's current status but perhaps she'll get married again one day and then you won't have to use the "divorce" about her at all.
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