''This makes benzodiazepine is an ideal group of sedative drugs...'
I just want to add 'is' after 'benzodiazepine' in the above sentence. Does it look grammatically? is the sentence cleat without adding 'is'? As a editor I have check and do this for my work?
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No "is" required; that would be ungrammatical. g. 1.
— MrPedantic
No "is" required; that would be ungrammatical.
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This makes X, which is Y.
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No "is" required; that would be ungrammatical. "Benzodiazepine" is the object of "makes", and therefore can't be the subject of a verb, unless you precede it with a relative pronoun, e.g.