'separate from'?

[Abc123]

Hi,

Can I say 'the pig farm is quite separate from the residential area'?

Thank you very much.
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[Babo]

yes
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[EditingShark]

Better still, use

The pig farm is separate from the residential area.
The pig farm is far from the residential area.
The pig farm is x miles from the residential area.

[Beeesneees]

Hi EditingShark,

Why do you consider those sentences to be better than the original? There's nothing wrong with any of them.
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[EditingShark]

Hello Beeesneees:

The use of "quite" is ambiguous.

The proper wording for the sentence depends on intent. If it is to defend the location/use of the pig farm, I'd write something like "The pig farm is five miles from the nearest residential area, and in fact no other house is even visible from the farm. Furthermore, residents in the distant community of x complaint about the smell from the horse farm situated within 100 feet of the community, not about the pig farm...."

[Beeesneees]

Use of 'quite' is no more ambiguous than 'separate from' or 'far from'. I believe your first examples to be acceptable alternatives, but no better than the original. In British English, 'quite' + 'separate' means 'entirely separated from'.

You seem to be thinking very deeply about the intent of the sentence. Why not take it at face value? In your sentence, you need 'complain', not 'complaint'. I suspect that it's a typo though.
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