Choose your reply from the options at the end. Does "In the past, many rural pubs provided opportunities for country folk to meet and exchange (often local) news, while othersespecially those away from village centresexisted for the general purpose, before the advent of motor transport, of serving travellers as coaching inns." contain the correct answer to "What was a function of distant country pubs before the rise of motor vehicles?"
Pick your answer from:
a). yes;
b). no;
a).