<p>"The newspaper reported that having the increase in the minimum wage, many people are still having trouble making ends meet."</p>
<p>What's wrong with the first "having", the answer says you should change "having" into "with having"</p>
<p>there's kind of a lot wrong with that. where did the question an the explanation come from?</p>
<p>I think the problem with this sentence is the tense. It should be having had because the increase in wage happened before people still having trouble.</p>
<p>"having" isn't really a great verb to use here at all, because it sounds strange to say that people "have" an increase in minimum wage, no matter the tense. to me, a better way to phrase the question would be ". . . reported that even with the increase . . . ", but even that's not great.</p>
<p>Better substitute would be "despite," makes the sentence sound better and more logical. This doesn't sound like a cb question.</p>
<p>ahhhh--thanks! that was the word i was looking for but i couldn't come up with it. man, i feel stupid right now :)</p>
<p>It's from CB's online course test.</p>