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Q. The oceans act as the largest carbon sink in the world, and our biggest line of defense against the repercussions of Climate Change. Despite being a natural carbon absorbent, programs aimed at transforming the ocean economy and ecology, and meeting its financial needs have come up short.

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Q. The oceans act as the largest carbon sink in the world, and our biggest line of defense against the repercussions of Climate Change. Despite being a natural carbon absorbent, programs aimed at transforming the ocean economy and ecology, and meeting its financial needs have come up short.

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The oceans act as the largest carbon sink in the world, and are our biggest line of defense against the repercussions of Climate Change. Although oceans are natural carbon absorbent, programs aimed at transforming the ocean economy and ecology, and meeting the oceans' financial needs have come up short.
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The sentence seems to be grammeritically flawless, experts might have their suggestions
my justifications to this is:

The oceans acts two way
1. as a largest carbon sink in the world - dependent clause
2. our biggest line of defence against the repercussions of Climate Change - dependent clause
- This parts maintain SV agreement, subject "oceans" and "acts" verb - both plural

Despite being a natural carbon absorbent,
programmes aimed at
1. transforming the ocean economy and ecology, and
2. meeting its financial needs have come up short
- parallelism "transforming" and "meeting" - present participle
- This parts maintain SV agreement, subject "Programmes" and "aimed" verb - both plural
- We use contrast "Despite" to express that something is unexpected or surprising
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This is certainly incorrect as the introductory modifier 'Despite being a natural carbon absorbent' is describing 'programs' which is logically incorrect.
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Good analysis 100mitra.

Few minor points:

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As pointed out, there is a clear modifier error in the second sentence, since the introductory modifier "Despite being a natural carbon absorbent" is incorrectly modifying "programs".

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The oceans acts two way
1. as a largest carbon sink in the world - dependent clause
2. our biggest line of defence against the repercussions of Climate Change - dependent clause
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This is definitely one way to look at it. However, if this was the intent, an additional "as" would certainly have made things much clearer:

The oceans act as the largest carbon sink in the world, and as our biggest line of defense against the repercussions of Climate Change.

On a side note, both 1. and 2. are "phrases" (not "clauses").

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- This parts maintain SV agreement, subject "oceans" and "acts" verb - both plural
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I think you meant "act".

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Despite being a natural carbon absorbent,
programmes aimed at
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As discussed above, this is a modifier error.

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1. transforming the ocean economy and ecology, and
2. meeting its financial needs have come up short
- parallelism "transforming" and "meeting" - present participle
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Parallelism indeed, but "transforming" and "meeting" are not used as present participles here; they are used as (what's called) Gerunds (noun forms of the verb)

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- This parts maintain SV agreement, subject "Programmes" and "aimed" verb - both plural
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This is bit of an issue. "aimed" is not a verb here; "aimed" is used as a "past participle" and so, does not really need to adhere to any SV agreement requirements. For the subject "programs", the verb is "have come".

p.s. Our book EducationAisle Sentence Correction Nirvana discusses difference between "Present participles" and "Gerunds", their application and examples in significant detail. If you or someone is interested, PM me your email-id; I can mail the corresponding section.
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Good analysis 100mitra.

Few minor points:


As pointed out, there is a clear modifier error in the second sentence, since the introductory modifier "Despite being a natural carbon absorbent" is incorrectly modifying "programs".


This is definitely one way to look at it. However, if this was the intent, an additional "as" would certainly have made things much clearer:

The oceans act as the largest carbon sink in the world, and as our biggest line of defense against the repercussions of Climate Change.

On a side note, both 1. and 2. are "phrases" (not "clauses").


I think you meant "act".


As discussed above, this is a modifier error.


Parallelism indeed, but "transforming" and "meeting" are not used as present participles here; they are used as (what's called) Gerunds (noun forms of the verb)


This is bit of an issue. "aimed" is not a verb here; "aimed" is used as a "past participle" and so, does not really need to adhere to any SV agreement requirements. For the subject "programs", the verb is "have come".

p.s. Our book EducationAisle Sentence Correction Nirvana discusses difference between "Present participles" and "Gerunds", their application and examples in significant detail. If you or someone is interested, PM me your email-id; I can mail the corresponding section.
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