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Khoshtip Posted 13 years ago
Grammar
it's exempt from...
In these sentences:
"This airgun has been classified as an adult gun, and is recommended for adult use only. Because it's considered to be a special-purpose aigun, it is exempt from specific types of trigger pull and safety mechanisms and drop tests."
May you please clarify the last part of that sentence where it says: "it is exempt from ..."?
Thanks
"This airgun has been classified as an adult gun, and is recommended for adult use only. Because it's considered to be a special-purpose aigun, it is exempt from specific types of trigger pull and safety mechanisms and drop tests."
May you please clarify the last part of that sentence where it says: "it is exempt from ..."?
Thanks
Top answer
it is exempt from doing = it is not required to do
- it is exempt from doing = it is not required to do
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May you please write all of that last sentence in that simple style?
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I would guess it would be a test involving allowing the gun to fall and hit the ground in order to make sure it won't go off accidentally if this happened.
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BarbaraPAWhy is this answer so surprising?Because an infinitive as an adjective is pretty weird?
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khoshtipI didn't think there is a test like this for guns.I have no expertise on gun manufacture, but it would seem to me to be a common-sense precaution to test the design to ensure that the gun is unlikely to go off by mistake. The problem of a gun going off when dropped has occurred. The WWII era Sten gun had a reputation for this, and some guns with expos
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