Can someone please tell me...

[Mr. Pedantic]

WTF is wrong with this sentence:

"A continued hypertensive state results in further damage to the renal circulation, causing leakage of more massive blood components, including proteins such as albumin, which had previously been confined to the intravascular space."

Word keeps throwing a fit because apparently it's a sentence fragment. I can see that maybe it's a bit long and a bit convoluted, but I can see a verb perfectly fine. It's "results". A results in B, causing C. Microsoft Word, there is nothing wrong with this sentence. You are an incompetent imbecile and I hope the person who programmed this idiotic behaviour into you gets gout.

/rant

EDIT: for lxskllr, LibreOffice doesn't identify this as an error. But then again, it doesn't identify "a dog" as an incomplete sentence either. So really, it doesn't seem to be any better.

 

[Kadarin]

Take out the comma after the word components, and see what happens.

 

[Mr. Pedantic]

Take out the comma after the word components, and see what happens.

wtf.

Now it has no squiggly line, but it sounds stupid. Like the person writing it was high on crack.

 

[Nox51]

Word throws fits on fragments. Then again it's useless for any sort of scientific or medical writing as its default dictionary is limited, even for arguably common words.

 

[IronWing]

"A continued hypertensive state results in further damage to the renal circulation, causing leakage of more massive blood components, including proteins such as albumin, which hadhave previously been confined to the intravascular space."

The comma after circulation could stay but isn't strictly necessary. Components is the subject of had so had needs to be plural.

 

[Perknose]

"A continued hypertensive state results in further damage to the renal circulation, causing leakage of more massive blood components, including proteins such as albumin, which hadhave previously been confined to the intravascular space."

The comma after circulation could stay but isn't strictly necessary. Components is the subject of had so had needs to be plural.

Agreed on both points from Mr. Wing.

As for Word, sentence fragment my arse.

 

[CurseTheSky]

A continued hypertensive state results in further damage to the renal circulation, causing leakage of more massive blood components. This includes proteins such as albumin, which had previously been confined to the intravascular space.

A continued hypertensive state results in further damage to the renal circulation, causing leakage of more massive blood components. Included are proteins such as albumin, which had previously been confined to the intravascular space.

A continued hypertensive state results in further damage to the renal circulation, causing leakage of more massive blood components; proteins such as albumin may be present, which had previously been confined to the intravascular space.

Just a few options.

 

[skimple]

Instead of "results" try "will result"