+HOT Competition 3 Sep/9AM: Maggot therapy, the use of maggots to clea

Question

Maggot therapy, the use of maggots to clear away necrotic tissue,  as a method of the debridement of wounds, it was well established  as early as 200 CE, but until about 40 years ago doctors did not realize that the maggots could help eliminate several different types of drug resistant bacteria.

(A) as a method of the debridement of wounds, it was well established
(B) as a method of the debridement of wounds well established
(C) was a well-established method of wound debridement
(D) was a well-established method of debriding wounds that was
(E) had been a method of wound debridement, well established

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Bunuel · Accepted Answer

Experts Global Explanation:

Modifier

Remember, removing extra information between two commas should yield a complete sentence. In this sentence, the phrase “the use of maggots to clear away necrotic tissue” between the two commas is extra information about “Maggot therapy”; hence, removing this information must yield a complete sentence. Multiple answer choices (A, B) can be eliminated by this approach.

A. The phrase “the use of maggots to clear away necrotic tissue” between the two commas is extra information about “Maggot therapy”; hence, removing this information must yield a complete sentence; doing so on this answer choice leads to an incomplete sentence. Besides, this answer choice suffers from a redundancy; the pronoun “it” is unnecessary, as the subject of the clause can be directly modified by the phrase “was well established”.

B. The phrase “the use of maggots to clear away necrotic tissue” between the two commas is extra information about “Maggot therapy”; hence, removing this information must yield a complete sentence; doing so on this answer choice leads to an incomplete sentence. Besides, this answer choice incorrectly links a dependent clause to an independent clause with a comma followed by the conjunction “but” (such usage can only connect two independent clauses); Option B leads to this error because it has no active verb, rendering the first clause of this sentence a dependent one.

C. In this answer choice, removing the extra information “the use of maggots to clear away necrotic tissue” between the two commas leads to a complete sentence. This answer choice maintains proper tense and modifier use to form a complete sentence that conveys the intended meaning; as both clauses in this sentence are independent, the use of the “comma + but” construction to link them is appropriate. Additionally, Option C is free of awkwardness and redundancy.

D. This answer choice incorrectly and illogically modifies the noun phrase “method of debriding wounds” with the phrase “that was as early as 200 CE”; this usage implies that the method spontaneously formed as early as 200 CE.

E. This answer choice incorrectly uses the past perfect tense (marked by the use of the verb “had”) to refer to the existence of maggot therapy as a method of wound debridement; the past perfect tense is only used to refer to actions that ended in the past and do not affect the present, and the second clause of this sentence implies that maggot therapy is still in use.

C is the best answer choice.

ShankSouljaBoi · Answer

C for me
(A) as a method of the debridement of wounds, it was well established

Double subject mistake, No verb for the process. Out !

(B) as a method of the debridement of wounds well established

No verb for the process. Out !
(C) was a well-established method of wound debridement

Cool

(D) was a well-established method of debriding wounds that was

that modifies wounds… usage of was ? Out !

(E) had been a method of wound debridement, well established

Wrong usage of had. Out !

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JonShukhrat · Answer

Maggot therapy, the use of maggots to clear away necrotic tissue, as a method of the debridement of wounds, it was well established as early as 200 CE, but until about 40 years ago doctors did not realize that the maggots could help eliminate several different types of drug resistant bacteria.

(A) as a method of the debridement of wounds, it was well established
 
“Maggot therapy… as a method of the debridement of wounds” lacks a verb and thus is a fragment. Moreover, it cannot act as a modifier also because the phrase starts with noun and caanot work as an appositivr of the following subject that doesn’t exist.

(B) as a method of the debridement of wounds well established

“Maggot therapy… as a method of the debridement of wounds” lacks a verb and thus is a fragment. Moreover, it cannot act as a modifier also because the phrase starts with noun and caanot work as an appositivr of the following subject that doesn’t exist.
The whole sentence before “but” lacks a verb.

(C) was a well-established method of wound debridement

Correct choice that makes sense. “was” makes sense with “as early as”. Keep this one.

(D) was a well-established method of debriding wounds that was

“debriefing” is a gerund that is less preferred when its action noun form exists, such as “debridement”. “was” refers to “method” and implies that method was as early as.. nonsense. Method is not a time period.

(E) had been a method of wound debridement, well established

We already have “as early as” and thus past perfect is redundant. This method still continued to be useful when it was rediscovered. Hence “had been” doesn’t make sense.

Hence C

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