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Soheil1 Posted 13 years ago
Vocabulary

Impose to?!

Hi.
What do these 'to's mean?

Mass allocation imposes enormous environmental impacts to the industrial by-products which may discourage the
concrete industry to continue applying them as cement replacement [90].

Thanks in advance
  

Top answer

impose on , not impose to . discourage from , not discourage to . Mass allocation imposes enormous environmental impacts on the industrial by-products which may discourage the concrete industry from continuing to apply them as cement replacement [90].

— Clive

  • impose on , not impose to .
  • discourage from , not discourage to .
  • Mass allocation imposes enormous environmental impacts on the industrial by-products which may discourage the concrete industry from continuing to apply them as cement replacement [90].
  • I don't know what the first part of this sentence means.
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impose on, not impose to.

discourage from, not discourage to.

Mass allocation imposes enormous environmental impacts on the industrial by-products which may discourage the
concrete industry
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I didn't write that piece. It is from an article which reportedly was published in a journal
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Was it written by a native speaker?
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Both seem from Belgium.
But the articles are refereed.
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I don't understand the meaning of 'allocation of environmental impacts', but presumably the journal readers do.

But the prepositions just seem to be poor English.

Clive
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