Question

Read this sentence from the story "Lifetime Service." Stories were shared about my grandfather helping construct additions to neighbors’ homes, dredging the town lake in the 1960s so that kids could actually swim in it, offering sage advice to other entrepreneurs who wanted to start businesses in town, and offering service as a volunteer firefighter for years. What does the word dredging mean in the sentence? Question 2 options: testing water samples from adding more water to scooping out dirt from removing wildlife from

Answer 1

Answer:

Dredging means "to scooping out dirt"

Explanation:

Dredging is defined as the service of removing dirt and impurities from the bottom of rivers, lagoons, seas, bays and port access channels. With this conceptualization we can understand what the grandfather of the speaker of the paragraph in the above question did. He helped clean the city lake in the 1960s so that children could swim.

From this we can conclude that the correct answer to your question is "to scooping out dirt".

Answer 2

Dredging means scooping something out of a river bed so i assume the answer is scooping out dirt.