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By law, a qualified physician can only prescribe medicine, protecting [#permalink] New post   Updated on: 12 Dec 2019, 04:40
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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.
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Originally posted by nightwing79 on 20 May 2009, 17:54.
Last edited by Bunuel on 12 Dec 2019, 04:40, edited 1 time in total.
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Re: By law, a qualified physician can only prescribe medicine, protecting [#permalink] New post   09 Mar 2016, 07:27
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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.
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Re: By law, a qualified physician can only prescribe medicine, protecting [#permalink] New post   02 Oct 2013, 13:04
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A and B erroneously imply that prescription is protecting the public. But commmon sense suggest that the law protect the public.

Simlimar is the problem with C

Out of D and E D says only should be placed next to qualified physician.

Therefore E.
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Re: By law, a qualified physician can only prescribe medicine, protecting [#permalink] New post   16 Dec 2013, 09:03
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nightwing79 wrote:
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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Re: By law, a qualified physician can only prescribe medicine, protecting [#permalink] New post   16 Dec 2013, 10:31
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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.



Correct Idiomatic usage is - " in order to " , this reduces answer choices D and E

Between D and E I will Choose E

Only a qualified Physician looks betterthan A qualified Physician only can prescribe medicine

IMO E
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Re: By law, a qualified physician can only prescribe medicine, protecting [#permalink] New post   19 Dec 2014, 12:35
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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Re: By law, a qualified physician can only prescribe medicine, protecting [#permalink] New post   18 Jul 2016, 09:16
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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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Re: By law, a qualified physician can only prescribe medicine, protecting [#permalink] New post   19 Jul 2016, 08:38
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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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Re: By law, a qualified physician can only prescribe medicine, protecting [#permalink] New post   19 Jul 2016, 10:34
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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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Re: By law, a qualified physician can only prescribe medicine, protecting [#permalink] New post   18 Apr 2018, 06:41
Can anyone please explain why D is wrong as compared to E
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Re: By law, a qualified physician can only prescribe medicine, protecting [#permalink] New post   18 Apr 2018, 06:54
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Can anyone please explain why D is wrong as compared to E


Placement of "only" correct in E.

In D, it can have two meanings.

qualified physician only can prescribe medicines

qualified physician only can prescribe medicines. Means qualified physician can't prescribe anything else.

Actual meaning is " only qualified doctors can prescribe medicines and no one else.

Therefore (E) is correct
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Re: By law, a qualified physician can only prescribe medicine, protecting [#permalink] New post   23 Jul 2018, 02:36
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.
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Re: By law, a qualified physician can only prescribe medicine, protecting [#permalink] New post   21 Aug 2021, 21:13
nightwing79 wrote:
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.


The question for the point of difference in the answer choice is who is protecting the public.
A is wrong because the position of 'only' suggests that a qualified physician can --- only prescribe medicine ----, protecting the public
The meaning is a qualified physician cannot do other things other than prescribing medicine. In addition, prescribing medication = protecting the public.
B 'protecting the public' modifies the clause 'only a qualified physician can prescribe'
C which modifier is wrong.
D wrong for same reason as A -- 'only'
E In order to protect the public -> modifies by law... and the rest is correctly sound.
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