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Directions: Use the explanations above to classify the following pun. Speaking ill of the dead is grave business. Select one: O a. Substitution or Close-Sounding Pun b. Homonym or Sound-a-like Pun O c.
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classify the following pun.
Speaking ill of the dead is grave business.
Select one:
O a. Substitution or Close-Sounding Pun
b.
Homonym or Sound-a-like Pun
O c. Double-Meaning Pun

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C. Double-meaning pun

In this pun, the word grave has a double meaning. It can refer to either the situation being serious or the hole in which the dead are buried. Both relate to the situation and therefore makes this a double meaning pun.
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