sudarshan22 wrote:
Even today, a century after Pasteur developed the first vaccine, rabies almost always kills
its victims unless inoculated in the earliest stages of the disease.
(A) its victims unless inoculated
(B) its victims unless they are inoculated
(C) its victims unless inoculation is done
(D) the victims unless there is an inoculation
(E) the victims unless inoculated
Project SC Butler: Day 27: Sentence Correction (SC1)
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The basic structure of option (A) without modifiers is
‘… rabies almost always kills its victims unless inoculated in the earliest stages of the disease’
Main clause – rabies almost always kills its victims
Dependent clause (adverbial) with a subordinating conjunction – unless …
But we don’t have a dependent clause here because the subject is missing. It could be a reduced adverbial phrase but that would mean that its subject should be the same as the subject of the main clause i.e. ‘rabies.’ But we know that ‘rabies’ is not inoculated. The victims are inoculated. Hence, it cannot be a reduced adverbial phrase. We need to specify the subject. Hence, both options (A) and (E) are incorrect.
The pronoun ‘they’ in option (B) clearly refers to the only plural noun before it – ‘victims.’
Options (C) and (D) are inferior to (B) because they do not specify who is inoculated.
Answer (B)