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Read the sentence below:

Please refrain from taking the food items that do not belong to you.

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.

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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.

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Then answer is "Take this food if you're fine with being a bad person"

The rest sound like commands or adopt a very formal tone. This one is more humorous because it doesn't command the reader.
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