Grammar and punctuation is correct, right?

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A technique that's widely used you may be interested in is the Pomodoro technique. It specialises in facilitating your mentioned issue.

AlpheccaStars · Accepted Answer

A technique that's widely used and that you may be interested in is the Pomodoro technique. It specialises in facilitating (solving ?) the ~~your mentioned~~ issue you mentioned.

Adam Eerish · Answer

I'm still clueless about whether grammar and punctuation is correct or not.. Thanks for the edit, though. But whatever is absolutely incorrect, can you tell me why?

Adam Eerish · Answer

Grammar and punctuation is correct, right?

AlpheccaStars · Answer

The use of the clause without the introductory pronoun is not strictly incorrect, but it is hard to read in the structure of your sentence.

"Mentioned" is not used commonly as a pre-position modifier. It is used as a postmodifier.

your mentioned issue (very awkward, not native)
the issue you mentioned (native, idiomatic)

Issues are not usually the subject of facilitation. It does not make much sense to facilitate a problem or issue. You can solve them, fix them or remediate them.
Meetings can be facilitated.

Adam Eerish · Answer

Firstly, thank you for the advise. I'm a right brained thinker, so my intrinsic inner dialogue is quite the contrary to how the English language is linearly followed. Despite that, though, I'm here and typing to understand it better.

Q1: Is the introductory pronoun you mentioned "that"?

If so, how come you used the coordinating conjunction "and" before "that"?

What does that signify?

Q2: Since the pith of my sentence was the verb "specialise", would it not be a premature judgement to use the word "solve" instead of "facilitate"? The company of the previously mentioned technique itself doesn't claim solving any problem, rather just making it easer, the definition of facilitate. I guess, well, I know it's absolutely subjective. Nonetheless, as previously said, thank you for your input.

AlpheccaStars · Answer

Here is the original.

A technique that's widely used you may be interested in is the Pomodoro technique.

The word "technique" is followed by two relative clauses:
1) that is widely available
2) you may be interested in

Notice that you used the relative pronoun "that" for one clause, but not the other. Good sentences use parallel structures, and this one is lopsided.

So I made one correction, by adding the "that" to the second clause, in parallel to the first.
Now you have
A technique that's widely used that you may be interested in is the Pomodoro technique.

The conjunction "and" makes it even clearer, since both ( 1) and ( 2) together refer to "technique."

Adam EerishThe company of the previously mentioned technique itself doesn't claim solving any problem, rather just making it easer,

Don't you mean making a problem easier to deal with or easier to solve?
Like I said, "facilitate an issue" makes no sense.

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