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Many sporting events have a negative impact on the environment because they require massive structures to host them.

To draw more spectators, sports stadiums and sporting facilities are getting bigger, consuming larger areas of land and requiring greater amounts of building materials for construction.

Whenever a hectare of grassland is cleared for a construction site, there is a loss of nature.

Every ton of concrete and steel used in the building foundation and structure is produced, transported, poured, and put together by equipment and facilities that emit waste into the ground and atmosphere.

Then, after the stadium is completed, large amounts of water, electricity, and other forms of resources are consumed to operate and maintain the facility.

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To draw more spectators, sports stadiums and sporting facilities are getting bigger, consuming larger areas of land and requiring greater amounts of building materials for construction.

To draw more spectators는 목적을 나타내는 부사적 용법의 to부정사구이다.

consuming … construction은 분사구문으로, 동시에 일어나는 상황을 나타낸다.

Whenever a hectare of grassland is cleared for a construction site, there is a loss of nature.

Whenever는 ‘언제든지 ~할 때’, ‘매번 ~할 때’라는 뜻의 복합관계부사로 부사절을 이끌며, at any time when과 같은 의미이다.

「every+명사」는 단수 취급하므로 단수 동사 is가 사용되었다.

that emit waste into the ground and atmosphere는 equipment and facilities를 수식하는 관계절이다.

Jogakbo was a useful activity in which leftover pieces of cloth were transformed into a pursuit of beauty and utility, eventually becoming an important part of traditional Korean craft art.

「전치사+관계대명사」인 in which가 쓰인 문장으로, Jogakbo was a useful activity.와 Leftover pieces of cloth were transformed into a pursuit of beauty and utility in it. 이 두 문장이 결합되었다.

It turns out that participants do not make bad impressions but make better impressions than they think.

It은 형식상의 주어이고 that 이하가 내용상의 주어이다. ‘A가 아니라 B’의 뜻인 not A but B 구조가 사용되어 make bad impressions와 make better impressions than they think가 but으로 대등하게 연결되어 있다.