Usage of noun phrases
I wrote the following sentence as a part of one of my essays. When I uploaded this to a online grammar checker, it shows that there is an issue with the usage of "requesting" in the following sentence. Therefore, I would really appreciate it if someone could let me know, what is the wrong with the following sentence. In fact I wrote the sentence with the premise that "requesting less wealthy nations to resolve the matter by their own" is a noun phrase.
Therefore, the received wisdom is not only would requesting less wealthy nations to resolve the matter by their own be unfair, but it also ignores the fact that it might exacerbate their financial issues.
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dileepa would requesting The software is probably incorrectly detecting this as a faulty verb phrase. The sentence itself is somewhat awkward and unidiomatic, and that, too, has led the software astray. At a bare minimum you need to signal the subordinate construction with 'that': Therefore, the received wisdom is that not only would requesting less wealthy nations to resolve the matter on their own be unfair, but it also ignores the fact that it might exacerbate their financial issues.
- dileepa would requesting The software is probably incorrectly detecting this as a faulty verb phrase.
- The sentence itself is somewhat awkward and unidiomatic, and that, too, has led the software astray.
- At a bare minimum you need to signal the subordinate construction with 'that': Therefore, the received wisdom is that not only would requesting less wealthy nations to resolve the matter on their own be unfair, but it also ignores the fact that it might exacerbate their financial issues.
- There is also a false parallelism between would ...
- be and ignores .
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dileepa would requesting
The software is probably incorrectly detecting this as a faulty verb phrase.
The sentence itself is somewhat awkward and unidiomatic, and that, too, has led the software astray. At a bare minimum you need to signal the subordinate construction with 'that':
Therefore, the received wisdom is that not only would
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