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Taka Posted 14 years ago
Grammar

Concerned with

These animals are related to deadly diseases.


If 'are related to' was replaced with 'are concerned with' as this:

These animals are concerned with deadly diseases.

would it sound OK and make the same sense?
  

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Neither makes any sense, really. Do you mean 'These animals carry deadly diseases'?
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Then what about these? They still don't make any sense at all?

Those infectious diseases have been proved to be related to creatures of this kind.
Those infectious diseases have been proved to be concerned with creatures of this kind.
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They don't make the sense that is necessary. 'Related to' and 'concerned with' are extremely vague and uninformative words.
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Hi,
I presume this is your meaning:
These animals are usually associated with deadly diseases (when speaking of poisonous animals, for example).

I think what you intend to do is make the association between those animals and some deadly diseases.

Regards
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RegardsHi,I presume this is your meaning:These animals are usually associated with deadly diseases (when speaking of poisonous animals, for example).I think what you intend to do is make the association between those animals and some deadly diseases.Regards
Right.

And do you think it's possible to replace 'be related to' with 'be concerned with' in su
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