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When corruption is reported in a business, the existing investors and shareholders will lose the confidence and trust that they had put in the business. When fraud is perpetuated within an organization, then the risk of accruing losses by entrepreneurs is increased.
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D, Informative
Explanation:
The passage above is not humorous, as it is not written to be a comediacal passage. It is also not self-pitying, because the author isn't moping about what they don't have. Lastly, it isn't a forgiving tone, as the author was not directly involved in the story being told, and so they had no one to forgive for anything.
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Death, be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so; ←→ The speaker personifies and diminishes the power of death.
She is all states, and all princes I, Nothing else is. Princes do but play us; compared to this, All honor's mimic, all wealth alchemy. ←→ The beloved is like the entire world to the lover.
If they be two, they are two so As stiffe twin compasses are two, Thy soule the fixt foot, makes no show To move, but doth, if th' other doe.<---> The lover and his beloved are described as separate but connected, like a drawing tool.
And sacrilege, three sins in killing three. Cruel and sudden, hast thou since Purpled thy nail in blood of innocence Wherein could this flea guilty be, ←→ The speaker chides his beloved for killing the flea
<span>The excerpt suggests that Johnson’s work is significant because it reflects an exhaustive study of its words.
In the excerpt above, Johnson says that he used many methods in order to compile this dictionary - he read a lot of books, used his experience, and used many analogies for readers to connect words and their meanings on their own. A is incorrect because that's not the point of a dictionary; B is incorrect because he doesn't even mention other dictionaries; D is incorrect because a dictionary cannot only list obscure words.
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