Is this sentence grammatically correct?

QuikSilver

QuikSilver

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"I am impressed by the wide spectrum of diseases, diagnostic and treatment modalities that internal medicine encompasses. "

thanks guys
 
CrazyKooK

CrazyKooK

Premium Member
other than the possibility of an added comma, I would guess it is correct.

Now I have to ask... WTF?
 
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CyanSleepy

New Member
I don't mean to be rude, but are we doing your homework?

Yes, it is grammatically correct. It looks better with an extra comma in my opinion though.
 
CelestialBadger

CelestialBadger

Retired Staff
Assuming that I'm reading it correctly and that you're referring to both diagnostic modalities and treatment modalities, no, it is not correct.

The fixed sentence should either read:

"I am impressed by the wide spectrum of diseases, diagnostic modalities and treatment modalities that internal medicine encompasses."

or

"I am impressed by the wide spectrum of diseases and diagnostic and treatment modalities that internal medicine encompasses."

It's a fairly common mistake, but a mistake nonetheless. It would be similar to me writing "I enjoy playing basketball, baseball and ice cream" (which would necessarily indicate that I enjoy playing ice cream), rather than writing "I enjoy playing basketball, playing baseball and ice cream" (although this version is more vague than writing " ... and eating ice cream" it would still be syntactically correct).
 
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Gimmi

Eric
I genuinely wish that anything in the world gave me as much pleasure as being a complete intellectual dick to strangers on the internet gives CB.
 
CelestialBadger

CelestialBadger

Retired Staff
i was legit tryna be helpful :(
 
Octopor

Octopor

your whole family is made of meat
change that to torchlight 2 (when it comes out) and you have a deal

don't really have too much new music to share sadly :(, but i'll try to see what i got
 
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Gimmi

Eric
i'll definitely be on TL2 when it comes out, but in the mean time POE is a nice oldschool ARPG.

Haven't been keeping up with ed banger crew, so most of that was new for me. Sending you some new tracks
 
CelestialBadger

CelestialBadger

Retired Staff
is it just me or does this new layout blow? whose idea was dark red text on a black bground? and why is the main content of the page reduced to like 40% screen size?
 
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Gimmi

Eric
CelestialBadger said:
Nah, I quit that a couple years ago. I'm in grad school atm.

Here's some music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4V_vBPaI1d0 yr into really sad country music rite??
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whats your of field study? also i dont think i ever thanked you, but some years ago you suggested not buying textbooks until after the first exam. you have saved me no less than a thousand bucks over these past few years in undergrad. <3forever

as for sad country music closest i have ever come to that is a few remixes of edward sharpe's home
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHEOF_rcND8

CelestialBadger said:
is it just me or does this new layout blow? whose idea was dark red text on a black bground? and why is the main content of the page reduced to like 40% screen size?
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you think red on black is bad? try logging out and logging back in. Its white on white text to enter your username. Classic.
 
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