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Maverick88 Posted 21 years ago
Grammar

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The original sentence: Enviromental reasons convinced the government to dispose of all municipal waste in five central sites only.

The book's equivalent to the sentence is:

The government's decision to centralize all municipal waste in only five sites was influenced by enviromental concerns.

I don't get this. " to dispose of all municipal waste in five central cities .." means to get rid of waste, to clear five sites, doesn't it? However, the book says the waste was centralized. Could anyone make this clear to me?

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I think both versions are hard to understand, Maverick...without a context.
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'Dispose of waste somewhere' is 'put waste somewhere and make it stabilize in a safe way'.

My try is like: Because of environmental concerns, the government decided to concentrate the disposal of (all the) municipal waste in five sites/facilities.
paco
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Clearly the authors of the book did not interpret it the same way. They do not take "in five central sites" to be the original location of the municipal waste; they take "in five central sites" to be the destination of the waste.

CJ
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Yes, they mean the destination, but 'to dispose of' means 'to get rid of' doesn't it?
Anyway, I think this: 'Dispose of waste somewhere' is 'put waste somewhere and make it stabilize in a safe way' thanks to Paco clarifies the reason for the weird (for me) answer, althoguh I don't really get how this comes to be true.
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