(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.
Solution:
Pronouns:
B: “By law,…., protecting the people.” Awkward sentence construction. The “law” protects the people, not “by law protecting the people.”
A: Same as B. Moreover, “physician can only prescribe medicine” suggests that he can’t do anything else like giving treatment or doing check up. But the intended meaning is that only a qualified physician can prescribe medicine and no one else.
C: pronoun “which” refers to either medicine or qualified physician or even the whole action of prescribing but it should refer only to “law” which is protecting the public.
D: “physician only can prescribe medicine” suggests that he can’t do anything else like giving treatment or doing check up. But the intended meaning is that only a qualified physician can prescribe medicine and no one else.
E: The best choice.
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