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Updated on: 31 Aug 2017, 20:49
Originally posted by yvonne0923 on 11 May 2011, 22:47.
Last edited by broall on 31 Aug 2017, 20:49, edited 1 time in total.
Last edited by broall on 31 Aug 2017, 20:49, edited 1 time in total.
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Although modern science has essentially eradicated the bubonic plague from the industrialized word, the occasional patient should be diagonsed every few years with the disease.
A. the occasional patient should be diagonsed every few years with the disease
B. an occasional patient should be diagonsed with the disease once in every few years
C. the disease will be diagonsed in the occasional patient once in every few years
D. every few years the occasional patient will be diagonsed with the disease
E. every few years the occasional patient should be diagonsed with the disease
A. the occasional patient should be diagonsed every few years with the disease
B. an occasional patient should be diagonsed with the disease once in every few years
C. the disease will be diagonsed in the occasional patient once in every few years
D. every few years the occasional patient will be diagonsed with the disease
E. every few years the occasional patient should be diagonsed with the disease
I understand the answer, but the question I have here is if we should use "if the occasional patient will be diagonsed" rather than use "the disease will be diagonsed"?
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31 Aug 2017, 17:59
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D is definitely the best of the bunch. A, B, and E are immediately out because of "should." Surely the author doesn't think that people should be diagnosed with the plague!
C improves on all those, but there's a bit of redundancy. "The occasional patient" means one patient here or there, so we don't need "once in every few years." (The use of "in" there is also not idiomatic.)
D fixes the above problems without introducing any errors. "The occasional X" is a standard idiom: "I don't eat a lot of sweets, but I've been known to eat the occasional cookie." "An occasional" is actually wrong. Outside of this idiom, we wouldn't refer to a person as "occasional" unless we are saying that they occasionally serve in a particular role: "Shanna is an occasional guest on Meet the Press."
C improves on all those, but there's a bit of redundancy. "The occasional patient" means one patient here or there, so we don't need "once in every few years." (The use of "in" there is also not idiomatic.)
D fixes the above problems without introducing any errors. "The occasional X" is a standard idiom: "I don't eat a lot of sweets, but I've been known to eat the occasional cookie." "An occasional" is actually wrong. Outside of this idiom, we wouldn't refer to a person as "occasional" unless we are saying that they occasionally serve in a particular role: "Shanna is an occasional guest on Meet the Press."
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11 May 2011, 23:13
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should be -- definitive
meaning patients are definitely diagnosed with the plague.This is not the case though. The second clause is an observation/future statement.
meaning patients are definitely diagnosed with the plague.This is not the case though. The second clause is an observation/future statement.
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