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caren_630
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Dear colleagues, I am in desperate need for help to answer the following question. It is a reading text about garbage crisis. We have to face the inevitable question posed by Ed Repa, manager of the solid waste disposal program at the National Solid Waste Management Association: "How do we throw something away when there is no �away�?" Why is the phrase �away� written between inverted commas? Thanks a lot in advance, |
17 May 2021
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Aisha77
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Hi: I had to search through the web to know more about the context, and I came to one conclusion: "away" in this context means that there is not an outside world where we can throw our garbage to, everything stays on our Planet Earth, so it�s not that simple as our waste won�t disappear. We all live in the same place where day after day the rubbish is accumulating in many places around the planet and it�s getting a truly terrible issue... I hope this answer can help you... Aisha ;) |
17 May 2021
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cunliffe
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Good explanation by Aisha. The inverted commas are because the �away� is a quote from the initial statement. Furthermore, it is not the word we usually use for the the rest of the world. |
18 May 2021
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caren_630
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Thx a lot cunliffe and Aisha. |
18 May 2021
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