"The animal is then cooked and served out to people" Could some one say something about rightness
of that phrase, particularly about "is then".

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"The animal is then cooked and served out to people"  Could some one say something about rightness
of that phrase, particularly about "is then".

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You could do away with the word "out".  The animal is then cooked and served to people.

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It's just an indicator of the order of events describing what happens next. You could also say "Then the animal is cooked and served out to people."