<p>Knife injuries acquired while cooking should be washed thoroughly with a disinfectant, covered completely, and then you should apply pressure to them. </p>
<p>I know this part is wrong, but the author’s correction is </p>
<p>Knife injuries acquired while cooking should be washed thoroughly with a disinfectant, covered completely, and have pressure applied to them. </p>
<p>I wonder if there is anything wrong with</p>
<p>Knife injuries acquired while cooking should be washed thoroughly with a disinfectant, covered completely, and applied pressure to them. </p>
<p>Thanks in advance</p>
<p>That is a tricky one, cause of the parallelism. But try reading it like this:</p>
<p>Knife injuries acquired while cooking should [] have pressure applied to them. </p>
<p>Knife injuries acquired while cooking should [] applied pressure to them.</p>
<p>I dislike both of the corrections, because neither is fully parallel.</p>
<p>For example, while “Knife injuries acquired while cooking should [] have pressure applied to them” reads well, “Knife injuries acquired while cooking should [] washed thoroughly with a disinfectant” does not.</p>
<p>The true root of the parallelism is “should BE”:</p>
<p>“should be washed”, “should be covered”, “should be…”</p>
<p>One possible solution is “[should be] compressed until bleeding has ceased.” Another is “[should be] pressed firmly.” </p>
<p>Or, just for giggles, “[should be] dipped in a vat of flesh-eating bacteria.” ;-)</p>
<p>@ walkingdead1480: so that means the word “and” separates the two parts into “should be washed, covered” and “should have”?</p>
<p>I thought it was simply “should be” + “washed, covered, and have”, then “should be have” sounds incorrect.</p>
<p>@ DreamSchlDropout: I agree that “should be …” is the clearest solution, but then “should be washed, should be covered, should be …” is kind of repetitive, isn’t it?</p>
<p>Thanks you two for your input :)</p>
<p>I don’t mean you should repeat “should be”; I only included it in brackets to demonstrate how each clause flows from it.</p>
<p>My recommendation is a sentence such as “Knife injuries acquired while cooking should be washed thoroughly with a disinfectant, covered completely, and compressed until bleeding has ceased.”</p>