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In an attempt to encourage residents to recycle glass, aluminum, and paper waste, the mayor of Townsville plans to establish specially designated drop-off centers to which residents can bring these materials for recycling. The mayor argues that the increased recycling will significantly reduce the town's ecological impact on natural resources.

Which of the following, if true, indicates that the plan to establish specially designated recycling centers will not have the effect that the mayor intends?

A. The delivery of the materials from the drop-off centers to the appropriate recycling plants will involve considerable expense for the town.
B. In order to occupy unused city-owned property, the drop-off centers will be such a great distance from the town's population centers as to discourage use.
C. Similar centers established in other towns have been ineffective in reducing the amount of waste produced by the towns.
D. Recent technological advances have provided many new uses for recycled aluminum and glass.
E. Many of the proposed centers will be open only at those times calculated to be the most popular with town residents.
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Confused between b n c. Choose C.

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B imo, because if the drop-off center doesn't get used by people living in the most populated places of this particular town, the impact of creating this center will be low.

I chose B over C as it is more specific for this particular town and the strong argument that most of the town's citizens won't use the drop-off center.
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In an attempt to encourage residents to recycle glass, aluminum, and paper waste, the mayor of Townsville plans to establish specially designated drop-off centers to which residents can bring these materials for recycling. The mayor argues that the increased recycling will significantly reduce the town's ecological impact on natural resources.

Which of the following, if true, indicates that the plan to establish specially designated recycling centers will not have the effect that the mayor intends?

A. The delivery of the materials from the drop-off centers to the appropriate recycling plants will involve considerable expense for the town.
B. In order to occupy unused city-owned property, the drop-off centers will be such a great distance from the town's population centers as to discourage use.
C. Similar centers established in other towns have been ineffective in reducing the amount of waste produced by the towns.
D. Recent technological advances have provided many new uses for recycled aluminum and glass.
E. Many of the proposed centers will be open only at those times calculated to be the most popular with town residents.

So lets see out of A and B, i had to weaken the plan that establishing specially designated drop-off centers to which residents can bring these materials for recycling wont be enough to encourage residents to recycle glass, aluminum, and paper waste.

The point is about encouragement.

B. In order to occupy unused city-owned property, the drop-off centers will be such a great distance from the town's population centers as to discourage use.
So if the distance of drop off point will be more, nobody will be that happy to go and drop the waste.

A. The delivery of the materials from the drop-off centers to the appropriate recycling plants will involve considerable expense for the town.
This went ahead the scope of the argument(

Always remain in the scope of the argument

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C. Similar centers established in other towns have been ineffective in reducing the amount of waste produced by the towns.
Other towns - Irrelevant

D. Recent technological advances have provided many new uses for recycled aluminum and glass.
Strengthening the plan

E. Many of the proposed centers will be open only at those times calculated to be the most popular with town residents.
Most popular town residents -> Irrelevant
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Is Choice B "grammatically" correct? I'm not able to make out the meaning of the sentence. Please help
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Is Choice B "grammatically" correct? I'm not able to make out the meaning of the sentence. Please help
Hello, rencewigg. Yes, choice (B) is fine as written, although I can understand why it might be hard to follow. How about we break it down into a more readily understood version?

Original: B. In order to occupy unused city-owned property, the drop-off centers will be such a great distance from the town's population centers as to discourage use.

Clarified: B. To occupy unused property that is owned by the city, the drop-off centers will be so far away from where many townspeople live or gather together that many such people will be discouraged from using the drop-off centers.

I hope that helps. It may not be a perfect rendering of the earlier sentence, but it captures the gist. If you have further questions, feel free to ask. Good luck with your studies.

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Hello Andrew,

Thanks for the clarification.

Original: B. In order to occupy unused city-owned property, the drop-off centers will be such a great distance from the town's population centers as to discourage use.

My version of the same: B. In order to occupy unused city-owned property, the drop-off centers will be at a great distance from the town's population centers as to discourage use.

I think that the preposition "at" is missing and the determiner "such" should not be there.
Kindly let me know if this correction of the choice is valid.
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Hello Andrew,

Thanks for the clarification.

Original: B. In order to occupy unused city-owned property, the drop-off centers will be such a great distance from the town's population centers as to discourage use.

My version of the same: B. In order to occupy unused city-owned property, the drop-off centers will be at a great distance from the town's population centers as to discourage use.

I think that the preposition "at" is missing and the determiner "such" should not be there.
Kindly let me know if this correction of the choice is valid.
Your grammatical understanding, rencewigg, is much more advanced than I had suspected from your first message. I thought you were having trouble understanding the sentence, not with missing prepositions and present determiners. The original sentence is fine as is: such a great distance from... as to discourage works on its own, similar to saying, so great a distance from... as to discourage. In your version, the replacement of such with at a could work, but then you have a problem with as to. To be clear, at a great distance from... as to discourage is incorrect without the very word you were eager to cut, such. It would need to be at such a great distance from to work, but then we run into redundancy issues between such and great. Getting back to your sentence, though, you would need to replace as to in a way similar to the following:

In order to occupy unused city-owned property, the drop-off centers will be at a great distance from the town's population centers and thus discourage use.

I am generally not a fan of tinkering with the given sentences too much, since they are presented as such for a reason, and our task is only to find the best option among the five. Still, I hope this dialogue has proven worthwhile for you. As always, good luck with your studies.

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Hello Andrew,

Thanks for the clarification.

Original: B. In order to occupy unused city-owned property, the drop-off centers will be such a great distance from the town's population centers as to discourage use.

My version of the same: B. In order to occupy unused city-owned property, the drop-off centers will be at a great distance from the town's population centers as to discourage use.

I think that the preposition "at" is missing and the determiner "such" should not be there.
Kindly let me know if this correction of the choice is valid.
Your grammatical understanding, rencewigg, is much more advanced than I had suspected from your first message. I thought you were having trouble understanding the sentence, not with missing prepositions and present determiners. The original sentence is fine as is: such a great distance from... as to discourage works on its own, similar to saying, so great a distance from... as to discourage. In your version, the replacement of such with at a could work, but then you have a problem with as to. To be clear, at a great distance from... as to discourage is incorrect without the very word you were eager to cut, such. It would need to be at such a great distance from to work, but then we run into redundancy issues between such and great. Getting back to your sentence, though, you would need to replace as to in a way similar to the following:

In order to occupy unused city-owned property, the drop-off centers will be at a great distance from the town's population centers and thus discourage use.

I am generally not a fan of tinkering with the given sentences too much, since they are presented as such for a reason, and our task is only to find the best option among the five. Still, I hope this dialogue has proven worthwhile for you. As always, good luck with your studies.

- Andrew
Andrew,
Thank you very much for your clear explanation. I'm thoroughly convinced with the structure of the original sentence in option B. As you have pointed out, the sentences are meticulously constructed the way they are, for a cause.
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