Begun to fret that it is now

English as a Second Language English Vocabulary, Grammar and Idioms
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The following reads like a run-on-sentence to me. Wouldn’t you agree that there is a comma or dash missing after ‘has begun to fret’?

Suddenly, though, German industry has begun to fret it is now on the losing side of the Chinese bet — and not just because of a recent slowdown in the world’s second-largest economy.

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No, here fret is used as a transitive verb: … begun to fret that it is now …

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Ah, now it does make sense of course. Many thanks for pointing me in the right direction :point_right:.

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