Question

Choose the correct standard usage for this sentence: “The town is fifteen miles _____.”

further
farther
distant
distanter

Answer 1

Farther. Further is metaphorical, using "farther" in this case because “farther” has the word “far” in it, and “far” obviously relates to physical distance. Therefore the town is fifteen minutes farther up the road

Answer 2

The town is fifteen miles farther.

Step-by-step explanation:

The sentence indicates the physical distance of a city, in other words, the sentence indicates that the city is "ahead", for this reason, the word, among the given options, which allows the meaning of the sentence to be complete, besides allowing text coherence and cohesion is the word " farther".