His health has begun to decline. - English example sentence

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AlanF_US January 28, 2020 January 28, 2020 at 5:36:03 PM UTC

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@JimBreen, I'd like to make this change:

His health has begun to decline now.
->
His health has begun to decline.

Alternatively, it could be changed to:
His health is beginning to decline now.

Since this sentence is part of the Tanaka Corpus, I thought I'd pass it by you first.

JimBreen January 28, 2020 January 28, 2020 at 7:57:31 PM UTC

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In terms of matching the Japanese your first version is better. Slightly more literal would be "His health has already begun to decline".

The original is rather clunky.

AlanF_US January 29, 2020 January 29, 2020 at 2:00:51 AM UTC

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Thanks, Jim.