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Which revision of this sentence changes the tone to a more humorous one?
Do not take the food of your co-workers! Take this food if you’re fine with being a bad person! If it does not belong to you, you cannot eat it. Please be kind to each other and do not steal food.
Answer: B) Take this food if you’re fine with being a bad person!
Explanation: The tone of a text or sentence is the author's or speaker's attitude towards the audience, the subject or even the characters of the text. There are many different kinds of tones, like: positive, negative, objective, sad, angry, etc. From the given options, the revision that change the tone of the sentence to a more humorous one, is the corresponding to option B, because it isn't a direct command.
The probability of winning the lottery is one in a million, so to improve his chances, Jonas buys 100 lottery tickets.
Jonas has been buying lottery tickets for years now and has never won, so he is bound to win some time soon.
Jonas won $5,000 the first time he bought a lottery ticket, so he has been buying lottery tickets for years now.
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