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Wed 11 Nov, 2009 09:38 pm
Which is the subject for verb "leaves"?
Context:
Results: Both indirect and direct comparisons suggest a possible benefit for a sliding hip screw over multiple cancellous screws in reducing the need for revision surgery. The indirect nature of the comparison from the meta-analysis of arthroplasty versus internal fixation, and the small sample sizes, methodological limitations, and nonsignificant pooled estimate from the direct comparisons, leaves the issue very much in doubt.
@oristarA,
The
indirect nature of the comparison ... leaves the issue very much in doubt.
I think if you edit the sentence down ... it looks like ...
indirect nature is the subject that's linked to that verb.
@tsarstepan,
Thanks.
But I am still confused, because preceding the verb leave, there are something there, including "and nonsignificant pooled estimate from the direct comparisons".
@oristarA,
Which is the subject for
the verb "leaves"?
I'd say,
The indirect nature, and the small sample sizes, [and] methodological limitations, and nonsignificant pooled estimate, leaves ...
and all the little descriptions that I've left out.
@JTT,
Thank you JTT. It becomes much clearer now.
@oolongteasup,
In that sentence? What grammatical usage is it, then?
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