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How to write a list of items, where the last item is a compound item?
One option:
Developers use X to add file upload functionality, image thumbnailing, file hosting and image hosting to their apps.
Another option:
Developers use X to add upload and hosting of files; ...
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Trying to explain grammatical error in fragmented compound sentence
I would not call the sentence grammatically incorrect, but it is clunky.
One issue is that the sentence doesn't make clear the relationship between us (the agent that discovered a unique opportunity) ...
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