Sentence:The music company was afraid the accelerating decline of sales of compact discs would not be compensated by increased internet revenue.
Solution:The music company was afraid that the accelerating decline of sales of compact discs would not be compensated by increased internet revenue.
I was given the following example. By using "that", the sentence is corrected.
I can't tell why and what's the difference in meaning with or without the word "that".
This was the given explanation:
"The original sentence has one independent clause (the music company was afraid of something) and then includes another main verb (would not be . . . revenue), but there is no conjunction to create a compound verb, so that second verb doesn’t have the same subject (company). Logically, the subject for the second verb should be the decline of sales, but this noun is in a prep phrase, so it can’t function as a subject of the sentence. One way to fix the sentence is to replace the preposition of with that: The music company was afraid THAT the accelerating decline of sales of compact discs would not be compensated by increased internet revenue. "
Can anyone please help to explain this further?