Answer: D. a counterclaim to the idea that most people are moral.
Explanation: a counterclaim is a claim made to rebut an idea, in this case that idea is that most people are moral, according to the excerpt this idea was in a lesson by Socrates. The counterclaim was made by a student named Glaucon who, by telling a story from Plato's Republic, expressed his argument about how the humans couldn't resist the temptation of evil if they knew no one would see them.
Answer: "am" is never a "preposition". Rather, "am" is a "first-person, present tense, singular" conjugated form of the verb, "to be" (in English); that takes the subject pronoun, "I".
"am" is a "verb"— and never a preposition.
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Answer:
D.supplements the story.
Explanation:
The author is just stating these events that took place thoughout the story.