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A doctor talking to someone at the hospital:
As you know he was in a critical condition when he was brought in here. But we managed to stabilize him, and the following days were encouraging, considering the circumstances, which gave us a hope that he would be able to recover with time.
Is this completely correct and natural English? Anything you would change? Thanks.
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anonymous As you know he was in a critical condition when he was brought in here. You need a comma after "know", partly because introductory phrases are traditionally set off that way, but even though such commas have fallen into disfavor lately in some circles, this one is necessary to prevent misreading. " anonymous But we managed to stabilize him, It is sometimes good to start a sentence with a coordinating conjunction, and this is one of those times.
- anonymous As you know he was in a critical condition when he was brought in here.
- You need a comma after "know", partly because introductory phrases are traditionally set off that way, but even though such commas have fallen into disfavor lately in some circles, this one is necessary to prevent misreading.
- " anonymous But we managed to stabilize him, It is sometimes good to start a sentence with a coordinating conjunction, and this is one of those times.
- If you run it in, it sounds like you also knew that they managed to stabilize him, and that is not what the doctor is saying.
- anonymous gave us a hope It's "gave us hope", not "a hope".
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anonymousAs you know he was in a critical condition when he was brought in here.
You need a comma after "know", partly because introductory phrases are traditionally set off that way, but even though such commas have fallen into disfavor lately in some circles, this one is necessary to prevent misreading. Without it, the reader sees "As you know he was …",
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