A. To inform
The passage is trying to inform you on what happen if you plagarise or what plagiarism is.
Answer:
The first one is correct.
Explanation:
Hope this helps u out.
If you had a given sentence:
"James could not eat because he was feeling ill."
"Because" is acting as a subordinating conjunction. A subordinating conjunctions will combine two independent clauses into one sentence, making it a complex sentence.