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Climate-Grief Research Focuses on Community Support

Adelaide’s planned toolkit would be developed with communities and mental-health representatives.

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In this lesson: Explain community involvement and use “rather than” with parallel activities.

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Read and understand · 1/2Whose involvement was planned in shaping the toolkit?

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Communities and mental-health representatives. The planned collaboration included communities and mental-health representatives.

Clue: Its planned toolkit would be shaped with communities and mental-health representatives, including attention to valued natural and cultural places.

Use the language · 2/2Which pair is parallel in this sentence?

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designing / asking. Both -ing forms name activities being compared.

Clue: Working with communities was part of designing the resource, rather than asking people to use a finished toolkit. WHO’s earlier guidance also supports community approaches to mental health and climate change.

Grammar in this story: Designing rather than using

Working with communities was part of designing the resource, rather than asking people to use a finished toolkit.

The sentence contrasts two activities using -ing forms: designing and asking. Example: “We discussed improving the route rather than cancelling the trip.”

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Use “planned” and “tested” to distinguish designing a toolkit from assessing it.

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The team planned a toolkit with communities. Its effects would need to be tested; announcing the project does not show that it works.

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