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Eipjoo Posted 13 years ago
Vocabulary
'being charted’ instead of ‘charted,’
We've already found more than a million species, but unearthing the rest was thought to be an impossible task.
But now it seems an army of amateur scientists have taken up the cause. A new study concludes that, thanks to them, we're in a golden age of discovery, with 20,000 new finds charted each year.
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I think it would be better to use ‘being charted’ instead of ‘charted,’ because of ‘each year.’ Is there something wrong in my guessing?
But now it seems an army of amateur scientists have taken up the cause. A new study concludes that, thanks to them, we're in a golden age of discovery, with 20,000 new finds charted each year.
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I think it would be better to use ‘being charted’ instead of ‘charted,’ because of ‘each year.’ Is there something wrong in my guessing?
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’ Is there something wrong in my guessing? "being" is not needed; the meaning is very clear without it.
- ’ Is there something wrong in my guessing?
- "being" is not needed; the meaning is very clear without it.
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eipjoo I think it would be better to use ‘being charted’ instead of ‘charted,’ because of ‘each year.’ Is there something wrong in my guessing?"being" is not needed; the meaning is very clear without it.
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Thank you very much. And would you let me know what the 'cause' means in the example? (I presume it has the similar meaning of "task" from the first sentence.)
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eipjooAnd would you let me know what the 'cause' means in the example? (I presume it has the similar meaning of "task" from the first sentence.)"cause" means the goal and the effort to achieve the goal.
'take up the cause' means to adopt the goal as your goal and support and/or join the effort to achieve the goal.
"task" is part of the meaning of "cau
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