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Takehisa Tanaka Posted 10 years ago
Grammar
Could you help me understand this sentence?
Could you help me understand this sentence?
This is from a magazine:
"The price of goods would be slashed, international trade deficits reversed, ethically suspect supply chains rendered unnecessary and the environment spared untold amounts of degradation."
I think, "international trade deficits reversed" is the same as "international trade deficits would be reversed."
But I can't understand the rest of the sentence.
Could you write it without omission, please?
This is from a magazine:
"The price of goods would be slashed, international trade deficits reversed, ethically suspect supply chains rendered unnecessary and the environment spared untold amounts of degradation."
I think, "international trade deficits reversed" is the same as "international trade deficits would be reversed."
But I can't understand the rest of the sentence.
Could you write it without omission, please?
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The words "would be" are omitted from all the subsequent clauses: The price of goods would be slashed international trade deficits would be reversed ethically suspect supply chains would be rendered unnecessary the environment would be spared untold amounts of degradation.
- The words "would be" are omitted from all the subsequent clauses: The price of goods would be slashed international trade deficits would be reversed ethically suspect supply chains would be rendered unnecessary the environment would be spared untold amounts of degradation.
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The words "would be" are omitted from all the subsequent clauses:
The price of goods would be slashed
international trade deficits would be reversed
ethically suspect supply chains would be rendered unnecessary
the environment would be spared untold amounts of degradation.
The price of goods would be slashed
international trade deficits would be reversed
ethically suspect supply chains would be rendered unnecessary
the environment would be spared untold amounts of degradation.
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Tanks, GPY.
Yet, I can't understand this sentence:
"the environment would be spared untold amounts of degradation."
Could you please rephrase it for me, please?
Yet, I can't understand this sentence:
"the environment would be spared untold amounts of degradation."
Could you please rephrase it for me, please?
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the environment would be spared untold amounts of degradation
the environment would be saved from great amounts of damage
untold ~ not possible to say, or too large to be measured, so (roughly) 'great'
CJ
the environment would be saved from great amounts of damage
untold ~ not possible to say, or too large to be measured, so (roughly) 'great'
CJ
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Thanks, everyone.
Finally, I can understand a whole sentence.
Finally, I can understand a whole sentence.
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Also, the fact that the learning structure is not well developed hurts learners as they struggle sorting content. Furthermore, many students need support of a physical teacher to get concepts right
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