Question #1326

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Started by cannedfun · started 2023-03-22 06:49 · last activity 2023-03-23 21:18 · 1 reply

Total federal expenditures for nationwide soil conservation programs have been less than the allocations of some individual states. How can we know that we should read it as allocations (by) some states (towards soil conservation) instead of Federal spending for soil conservation versus allocations (to) some states (for whatever [education, lsat prep, etc]) If it were the second then it would be limited to federal spending, so I thought they were all bad and went with B even knowing they said some. If I said in 2023 the federal allocation for funding of California was 200B, isn't that parallel here? Would love some insight here!

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  1. Emil-Kunkin · 2023-03-23 21:18

    I think that in this case we can read this using a common sense approach. Since we are never told what the allocations are of, we should default to the most recent antecedent, which in this case is soil conservation. More specifically, this is clearly an argument about government spending on soil conservation, we can safely understand the author as referring to soil conservation regarding state allocations.

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