Clean up the following sentences by identifying and correcting misspellings and misused/incorrect words.
Question:
1. Perforation of the tympantic membrane was beleived to be the cause of the patient's vertigoe and myringitis.
ANSWER:
1. Perforation of the tympanic membrane 'was or is' believed to be the cause of the patient's vertigo and myringitis.
*medical corrections tympanic, vertigo ,+ myringitis also believed corrected spelling -
concerned about the use of:
was beleived or
is believed
Thank You
Watch the spelling of "believed" -- remember "i before e, except..."
I would use "is believed" if I were writing about something that is current. If you are writing about something that is decidedly in the past, though, then use the past tense.