....to easily disposed of ash

[Rachel Adams]

Hello

Please help me to understand the construction of this sentence. I mean the underlined part. The extract is taken from 1100 Words You Need to Know by Murray Bromberg and Melvin Gordon

''One act this domesticated automaton will not have to contend with will be scouring the oven because even today the newest ranges can be programmed to reduce their own baked-on grime to easily disposed of ash.''

 

[GoesStation]

Does the text not have a hyphen in the compound adjective disposed-of?

 

[Rachel Adams]

No, it doesn't.

 

[Rachel Adams]

I don't understand the fution of 'to' in this sentence: ''to easily disposed of ash.''
Does ''contend'' mean to ''compete''?

 

[Rachel Adams]

Or ''The baked-on grime is changed into ash which is easily disposed of'', right? This construction 'to easily disposed of ash' was so confusing:-?. What kind of construction is it?​

 

[Rachel Adams]

I mean ''disposed of''.

 

[Rover_KE]

Does the text not have a hyphen in the compound adjective disposed-of?

No, it doesn't.

It should.

 

[Rachel Adams]

Can ''contend with'' be replaced by ''compete with''?

 

[GoesStation]

It should.

Indeed, I'd add two hyphens: easily-disposed-of trash. The hyphenated string is a compound adjective.

 

[tedmc]

Indeed, I'd add two hyphens: easily-disposed-of trash. The hyphenated string is a compound adjective.

I prefer not to use the long hyphenated adjective and rephrase the clause as follows:

..the newest ranges can be programmed to reduce their[STRIKE] own [/STRIKE]baked-on grime to ash which can be disposed of easily.