The only thing the employer says is that the company's best resource is the employees. His statement has nothing to do with the EPA, nor has it anything to do with any environmental concern.
That eliminates d and a. His concern is not laziness. He wouldn't be praising his workers if he was. So B is now gone as well.
The only thing left is C. This is an inference question, so the right answer can be inferred. He's concerned about the well being of his employees.
C <<<< answer.
Maybe character vs self???
D. ancestors. the indirect object precedes the direct object and tells to whom or for whom the action of the verb is done and who is receiving the direct object.
The prepositions are the words which show the relationship between the pronoun and the nouns. On the other hand, the prepositional phrase starts with the prepositions and end with the object of a preposition, having one or more modifiers to describe.
Adverb phrase refers to the group of words which qualifies adjectives, verbs or adverbs.
While answering the question of<em> where? when? or how?</em> prepositional phrase is identified as an adverb.
Therefore, the sentence in which group of words is a prepositional phrase acting as an adverb is My sister applied [on Tuesday] to a graduate school in England.
As the above bracketed sentence answer the question of <em>when </em>did she apply? -<u> 'on Tuesday'</u>, hence it qualifies to be a prepositional phrase acting as an adverb and modified<u> 'applied.'</u>