A scientist using ordinary decimal notation would have to write the diameter of, say, a helium atom as 0.000 000 000 062 m and the distance to the moon as 340 000 000 m.There would be way too much zeros to write
First, it is spelled servile. Second, here is your sentence!
The boy was servile and weak, intolerably vain and ambitious.
Taking into account that a simile is a literary device used to compare two unlike things, the following examples provide a clear use of this resource in Shakespeare's masterpiece "Hamlet" (act three scene one):
King Claudios: <em>"For we have closely sent for Hamlet hither,
that he, </em><em>as </em><em>'twere by accident, may here affront Ophelia." </em>
Ophelia: "...<em>words of so sweet breath composed </em><em>as</em><em> made the things more rich..."</em>
Words such as "like" or "as" help the reader identify the use of this figurative speech.
ANSWER : inform
The primary purpose of the prologue in Sugar Changed the World is to inform the reader about the impact of sugar on world events and culture. First, the text introduces the history of sugar production and indicates that it led to slavery.
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