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Dileepa Posted 6 years ago
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How to use "humankind"

When I was writing an essay about the feasible solutions for the population growth, I wanted to paraphrase "people". In order to do that I used "humankind". What I wanted to express in the following sentence is that despite various ethical concerns, governments have to take preventative measure if the population growing rate of the country is too high. Could someone please let me know whether the usage of "humankind" in the sentence is appropriate.


Such restrictions, indeed, not only unfair, but they also could lead to a controversy. Nonetheless, if they need to prevent insidious negative implications for the humankind, inevitably the governments would have to take such precautionary actions.

  

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" Your usage is unnatural. I do not know the context, but the usage of other words seems irregular Such restrictions, indeed, not only unfair, but they also could lead to a revolt. controversy .

  • " Your usage is unnatural.
  • I do not know the context, but the usage of other words seems irregular Such restrictions, indeed, not only unfair, but they also could lead to a revolt.
  • controversy .
  • Nonetheless, if they need to prevent insidious negative consequences implications for the nation, humankind , inevitably the governments would have to take such precautionary actions.
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We do not use "the" with "humankind."

Your usage is unnatural. I do not know the context, but the usage of other words seems irregular

Such restrictions, indeed, not only unfair, but they also could lead to a revolt. controversy. Nonetheless, if they need to prevent insidious negative

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