Question

Read this paragraph from the article: Just last month, India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced his plan to connect 50 million Indian families to clean cooking gas over the next three years. This is an important step being taken at an unprecedented scale, and it could help protect the lives of millions, while also improving India's environment. Why does the author use the word unprecedented rather than original or new?

Answer 1

Answer: unprecedented is a more emphatic word that helps support the tone better than plainer words, and further emphasizes that this has not been done before.

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