“Has reported” as present perfect vs. “has” as present + “reported” as a noun
In the following sentence below, I want to use the word reported as a noun, but it looks like I’m using the present perfect form has reported.
How can one be clear when constructions like this arise?
That both covers the whole 3-week period and has reported duty-cycles under it.
(Note: That sentence was written in the context of technical writing, so don't pay too much attention to its actual meaning.)
Solution 1:
The Perfect construction is far more common than the construction you want to use, so you're headed up the garden path for sure without changes.
To inhibit interpretation as Perfect, just include something that can't appear between auxiliary have and a Perfect participle, but can appear between a main verb have in the 'possess' sense and its direct object.
Like an article or quantifier to mark the beginning of a Noun Phrase:
- .. and has the reported duty cycles on it.
- .. and has all/some (of the) reported duty cycles on it.
Alternatively, use contain or report instead of have .. on it:
- .. and contains the reported duty cycles.
- .. and reports the duty-cycles.