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Coif200287 Posted 12 years ago
Vocabulary

"traces of a few"

Should I understand what the meaning of this phrase in engling is in this sentence?
"People are more scared of eating traces of a few, strictly regulated than they are eating the ones that nature created directly"
  

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Something seems to be missing from this sentence, namely the words that would answer the question "traces of a few, strictly regulated what?" Are you sure you copied it correctly?
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oops. Full phrase is "traces of a few, strictly regulated, man-made chemicals"
I'm sorry for my mistake. Thank you
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"a few", "strictly regulated" and "man-made" all modify "chemicals".

"traces of" modifies "a few, strictly regulated, man-made chemicals".

"traces of" means "very small quantities of".
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...a few strictly regulated (sic) Genetically Modified Organisms, than...
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Maybe this:

"People are more scared of eating traces of a few, strictly regulated chemicals than they are eating those the ones that nature created directly".
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GPY: so why it has "," between "a few", "strictly regulated" and "man-made". And why it doesn't have "and" between the two last adj?
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coif200287 GPY: so why it has "," between "a few", "strictly regulated" and "man-made". And why it doesn't have "and" between the two last adj?
The comma after "a few" may be anomalous. To be honest, I can't decide if it is strictly allowable. The author may be trying to make "strictly regulated" parenthetical. Depending on one's interpretation of this as
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