{Hospitals, having focused on supporing practioners from all fields of medicine,now striving} to become efficient solutions shops for specific illnesses.
Hospitals,hvaing focused on supporting practioners from all fields of medicine are now striving
Hospitals have focused on supporting practioners from all fields of medicine, are now striving
Difference between both of these
Can you please explain why is A right and not B
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S- V agreement- Having focused or have focused
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Choice A should have a comma after medicine.
Hospitals,having focused on supporting practioners from all fields of medicine, are now striving.
To your question, A is correct because the "having focused" phrase is acting as a modifier to "hospitals". B is an example of what is called a run-on sentence, in which two independent clauses are seperated by a comma.
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Hospitals,having focused on supporting practioners from all fields of medicine, are now striving.
To your question, A is correct because the "having focused" phrase is acting as a modifier to "hospitals". B is an example of what is called a run-on sentence, in which two independent clauses are seperated by a comma.
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Well, B doesn't actually have two independent clauses. It has two main verbs for the same subject and we need a coordinating conjunction instead of comma to connect them.
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yes this one I agree it does nt have independent clauses - had 2 verbs for 1 subject
Frankenstein wrote:Well, B doesn't actually have two independent clauses. It has two main verbs for the same subject and we need a coordinating conjunction instead of comma to connect them.
