Question

Several poets have taken inspiration from walt whitman's style therefore he's known in literary circles across the world. how can this fused sentence be fixed

Answer 1

Several poets have taken inspiration from Walt Whitman's style; therefore, he's known in literary circles across the world.

Answer 2

Based on the given sentence above, we can fix this fused sentence by applying the correct punctuation mark. Since the sentence is composed of two independent clauses, we should put a semicolon before the coordinating conjunction and a comma after it. So the sentence would be: Several poets have taken inspiration from Walt Whitman's style; therefore, he's known in literary circles across the world.