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Silak12 Posted 12 years ago
Grammar

related to?

Hi! everyone.
Could you rephrase this sentence? I have always had difficulty in understanding "related to" in contexts like below?
Higher education is at once related to our progress in industry,commerce,application of science to life and so on.
Thanks!
  

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Higher education has a (presumably causal) connection/association to our progress.

  • Higher education has a (presumably causal) connection/association to our progress.
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Higher education has a (presumably causal) connection/association to our progress.
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silak12Higher education is at once related to our progress in industry,commerce,application of science to life and so on.
"at once" is used to mean "all at the same time", so this is like

Higher education is related to our progress in industry, and it is also related to our progress in commerce, and it is also related to the application of science to
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Thanks a lot MM. I got it.
As for CJ, that's really the explanation I needed. Hat tip to you.

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