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Lucas21c Posted 13 years ago
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Could you paraphrase the following underlined sentence?
I cannot understand exactly what it means ...does the 'for' mean 'because' there?
What they`re surprised about, is the force of the fire happening so early in the year. This is the type of destruction you see usually in October, but because of the dry weather, the lack of precipitation we`ve had this year, that`s really a dangerous combination for what`s going to be they`re anticipating a very difficult fire season.
I cannot understand exactly what it means ...does the 'for' mean 'because' there?
What they`re surprised about, is the force of the fire happening so early in the year. This is the type of destruction you see usually in October, but because of the dry weather, the lack of precipitation we`ve had this year, that`s really a dangerous combination for what`s going to be they`re anticipating a very difficult fire season.
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lucas21c that`s really a dangerous combination ... that`s really a dangerous combination for ... a very difficult fire season .
- lucas21c that`s really a dangerous combination ...
- that`s really a dangerous combination for ...
- a very difficult fire season .
- It is admittedly a strange grouping of words, and it's part of a run-on sentence, but we are to take it as 'a combination that is dangerous for those who will have to deal with the fires'.
- It's related to the common word group "dangerous for (someone)".
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lucas21cthat`s really a dangerous combination ...that`s really a dangerous combination for ... a very difficult fire season.
It is admittedly a strange grouping of words, and it's part of a run-on sentence, but we are to take it as 'a combination that is dangerous for those who will have to deal with the fires'. It's related to the co
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