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Rommel Posted 8 years ago
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Have I correctly used ‘but,’ ‘it,’ and ‘as’ in the sentence? Should I say ‘recommended,’ ‘promoted,’ or ‘prescribed’?

Have I correctly used ‘but,’ ‘it,’ and ‘as’ in the sentence? Should I say ‘recommended,’ ‘promoted,’ or ‘prescribed’?

Doctor Brown conducted a seminar in a Catholic university in order to educate students on how to prevent the transmission of HIV/AIDS. He clarified that he did understand and respect the Catholic Church’s stand against using condoms but that he merely mentioned it as one of the preventive measures against the spread of the disease as (recommended, promoted, prescribed) by the government’s health department/agency.

  

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Rommel Doctor Brown conducted a seminar in a Catholic university in order to educate students on how to prevent the transmission of HIV/AIDS. He clarified that he did understand and respect the Catholic Church’s stand against using condoms but that he merely mentioned it as one of the preventive measures against the spread of the disease as (recommended, promoted, prescribed) by the government’s health department/agency. Please consider using this slightly different structure.

  • Rommel Doctor Brown conducted a seminar in a Catholic university in order to educate students on how to prevent the transmission of HIV/AIDS.
  • He clarified that he did understand and respect the Catholic Church’s stand against using condoms but that he merely mentioned it as one of the preventive measures against the spread of the disease as (recommended, promoted, prescribed) by the government’s health department/agency.
  • Please consider using this slightly different structure.
  • I believe it more clearly explains your meaning: He clarified that while he understood and respected the Catholic Church's stand against using condoms he was merely mentioning it because it is one of the preventive measures against the spread of the disease recommended by the government's health department/agency.
  • Rommel Should I say ‘recommended,’ ‘promoted,’ or ‘prescribed’?
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RommelDoctor Brown conducted a seminar in a Catholic university in order to educate students on how to prevent the transmission of HIV/AIDS. He clarified that he did understand and respect the Catholic Church’s stand against using condoms but that he merely mentioned it as one of the preventive measures against the spread of the disease as (recommended, promoted, prescrib

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