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Critical Reasoning (CR) | To facilitate development of telephone service in a rural province

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Gangadhar111990 wrote:

­Hello MartyMurray Sir,

Kindly share your views on how should I negate answer choice B .
What I know is that you can negate only one piece of the answer choice. So, I am reading this sentence after negating like this:

The national government's subsidy would applyonly for calls made to phones in the province, but to at least some long-distance calls that are merely routed through the province.

But this sentence is not making any sense tome.


Here's(B).

B. The national government's subsidy would apply not only for calls made to phones in the province, but to at least some long-distance calls that are merely routed through theprovince.

In Critical Reasoning, we have to be ready to override with logic any rules that we think work all the time but may not work in some cases.

In this case, the rule that, to negate a choice, we must change only one part doesn't quite make sense since, in this case, the "not only ... but" structure connects two parts of the choice.

So,
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Statistics : Posted by MartyMurray • on 25 May 2022, 00:30 • Replies 12 • Views 8841



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