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16 Dec 2013, 08:03
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By law, a qualified physician can only prescribe medicine, protecting the public.
A. By law, a qualified physician can only prescribe medicine, protecting the public.
B. By law, only a qualified physician can prescribe medicine, protecting the public.
C. By law, only a qualified physician can prescribe medicine which protects the public.
D. In order to protect the public, by law a qualified physician only can prescribe medicine.
E. In order to protect the public, by law only a qualified physician can prescribe medicine.
A and B is doubtful in meaning. Protecting the public is not with respect to physician. C has which and it does not has a comma before it. D has the same problem position of only. E describes everything perfectly...
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19 Dec 2014, 11:35
I still dont understand why not B. Protecting is modifying "only a physician can prescribe the medicine", the result of this that its protecting the public.
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18 Jul 2016, 08:16
daagh wrote:
It is not the physician or the prescription that is protecting the public; it is the law that is doing it. So, B is off the mark.
don't you think there should be a comma after by law in the option E. It sounds if by law only, the physician ...or it can sound like by law, only ..which then will be correct..
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19 Jul 2016, 07:38
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RakeshThakur wrote:
daagh wrote:
It is not the physician or the prescription that is protecting the public; it is the law that is doing it. So, B is off the mark.
don't you think there should be a comma after by law in the option E. It sounds if by law only, the physician ...or it can sound like by law, only ..which then will be correct..
An opening prepositional phrase does not necessarily require a comma. Some grammarists suggest that if the phrase is not more than 3-4 words long, a comma can be omitted.
However, from claritiy aspect, your suggestion is better than option E.
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Ok, let’s try and put the comma after law as suggested and see.
In order to protect the public, by law, only a qualified physician can prescribe medicine.
Now the phrase –by law - turns inessential to the context; the introductory modifier -in order to protect the public- will have to necessarily modify the physician, thus distorting the intended meaning. Hence, I feel that a comma after law will be inappropriate
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23 Jul 2018, 01:36
Hope your preparation is going well. Now, let us try to identify an error in the underlined portion, the statement incorrectly suggests that medicine is protecting public however the intended idea is that the law protects the public. Hence Choice A goes out. On the similar grounds, B and C can be eliminated. D is incorrect because the idea the sentence conveys is that qualified doctors can prescribe only medicines and nothing else. This is not what the sentence means and hence E is the right answer. Keep practicing. All the best!! PythaGURUS Faculty Team
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