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Tanit Posted 19 years ago
Grammar

road freight transport

1i00This perceived lower cost of road transport, together with its higher flexibility, ability to reach every destination, and reliability (SOURCE1), not only generates more frequent freight flows (SOURCE2), but also contributes to increase the share of goods that travel by road in Europe (SOURCE3) while reducing that of rail (SOURCE4).02i02br
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0 01i 00contributes to increase - there's a problem with this part. 02i 00 0-

— Nona the brit

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0 01i00contributes to increase - there's a problem with this part. 02i00 0-
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01cite10Nona The Brit12cite11i10contributes to increase - there's a problem with this part. 12i12blockquote
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00I didn't find any pattern "contribute" + preposition + verb in my dictionary, only "contribute" + to + "noun".02br
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01i00This perceived lower cost of road transport, together with its higher flexibility, ability to reach every destination, and reliability (SOURCE1), not only generates more frequent freight flows (SOURCE2), but also contributes to increase the share of goods that travel by road in Europe (SOURCE3) while reducing 01font00th
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01cite10Nona The Brit12cite11i11font10contributes to increase12font10 - there's a problem with this part. 12i12blockquote
10I agree with Nona's comment about this part. Perhaps it should be modified to: 01font00" also contributes to
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0Thanks to all of you 050010id1
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