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=> ANSWER: FALSE

1. It took into account subtleties of meaning

In paragraph 6, the writer says: ” Johnson treated English very practically, as a living language, with many different shades of meaning.” So it can be inferred that Johnson must have taken into account subtleties of meaning in order to deal with many different shades, or small differences, of meaning. Subtlety (subtleties) : a fine distinction or the ability to make such a distinction

=> ANSWER: TRUE

1. Its definitions were famous for their originality

In paragraph 6, the writer states: “He did not expect to achieve complete originality”

=> ANSWER: FALSE

1. Having rented the garret, he took on a number of …, who stood at a long central desk.

Keywords: garret, a number of, stood, long central desk


In paragraph 5, the first sentence, the writer says: “James Boswell, his biographer, describes the garret where Johnson worked as fitted up like a counting house” with a long desk running down the middle at which the copy clerks would work standing up.”

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  central=running down the middle
  

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  stood=standing up
  

=> ANSWER: clerks/copy clerks

1. Johnson did not have a … available to him, but eventually produced definitions of in excess of 40,000 words….

Keywords: definitions, 40,000 words

In paragraph 6, the writer states that: (….and without a library to hand), Johnson wrote the definitions of over 40,000 words….

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  in excess of=over
  

=> ANSWER: library

1. Acording to his biographer, James Boswell, Johnson‟s principal achievement was to bring… to the English language.

Keywords: James Boswell, principal achievement, English language

In paragraph 8, the writer says: ” It is the cornerstone of Standard English, an achievement which, in James Boswell‟s words, “conferred stability on the language of his country”