Chapter 67. Exercise W2-6

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Exercise W2-6

Wordy sentences

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The sentences in this exercise are all taken from one paragraph about ancient Greek medicine. The following is the first sentence in the paragraph: "Did you know that the ancient Greeks wrote about medicine?" Correct the other sentences, below, to eliminate wordiness. Answers may vary.

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Suggested revision: By the seventh century, the Greeks’ medical writings might have vanished.
For more help, see section W2.

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Suggested revision: Luckily, Islamic scholars decided that these writings were worth preserving.
For more help, see section W2.

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Suggested revision: Ninth-century caliphs of Baghdad established a center where Greek scientific manuscripts were translated into Arabic.
For more help, see section W2.

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Suggested revision: Simply keeping these manuscripts in use and making copies available would have been a remarkable achievement for the medieval Islamic world.
For more help, see section W2.

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Suggested revision: But Arab scholars were not content just to study information that had already been discovered.
For more help, see section W2.

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Suggested revision: Arab thinkers of the ninth, tenth, and eleventh centuries made many original contributions to medical science.
For more help, see section W2.

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Suggested revision: Al-Razi, known to Westerners as Rhazes, successfully treated patients suffering from such diseases as scabies, measles, and kidney infections.
For more help, see section W2.

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Suggested revision: Ibn Sina, known in the West as Avicenna, was perhaps the greatest medieval Arab physician.
For more help, see section W2.

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Suggested revision: His book Canon of Medicine was still being consulted by doctors in the nineteenth century.
For more help, see section W2.

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Suggested revision: Patients today have many reasons to be grateful to these medieval Islamic scholars.
For more help, see section W2.