Breakdown of Hastanın plasebo almış olması, ekibin yapmakta olduğu ölçümleri etkiliyor.
yapmak
to do / to make
almak
to take, to buy
olmak
to be
ekip
team (crew, working group)
etkilemek
to affect
hasta
patient (medical)
plasebo
placebo
ölçüm
measurement (act or result of measuring)
Questions & Answers about Hastanın plasebo almış olması, ekibin yapmakta olduğu ölçümleri etkiliyor.
Why do we use yapmakta olduğu instead of just yaptığı?
The structure yapmakta olduğu uses the formal continuous suffix -mAktA to add a strong, active ongoing meaning: "that the team is currently making." While the standard relative clause yaptığı is very common and can mean "that they make," "that they made," or "that they are making," using -mAktA olduğu removes any ambiguity and emphasizes that the process is actively happening right now.
How does the grammar in "hastanın ... almış olması" work?
This is a past/perfect noun clause translating to "the fact that the patient has taken." Hastanın (the patient's) acts as the genitive subject. If we used the simple verbal noun alması, it would just mean "taking" or "that they take." By pairing the past/perfect suffix -mIş with the possessed verbal noun of "to be" (ol-ma-sı), it shifts the meaning to a completed action: "the state of having taken."
Why does "ölçümleri" end with an -i? Is it a possessive suffix?
No, the final -i here is the definite accusative case marker. The entire noun phrase ekibin yapmakta olduğu ölçümler (the measurements the team is making) is the direct object of the verb etkiliyor (affects). Because it is a highly specific, defined object, it requires the accusative case: ölçüm (measurement) + -ler (plural) + -i (accusative).
Since a team is made up of multiple people, why is it "ekibin ... olduğu" and not "ekibin ... oldukları"?
In Turkish, collective nouns like ekip (team), aile (family), or grup (group) are treated as grammatically singular unless they have the plural suffix (ekipler). Because ekip is singular here, it takes the 3rd person singular possessive suffix in the relative clause: ekibin ... olduğu.
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