Correct revision of run-on sentence: The executives decided to downsize the company several employees lost jobs. A. The executives decided to downsize the company, several employees lost jobs.
B. The executives decided to downsize the company; several employees lost jobs.
C. The executives decided to downsize the company several; employees lost jobs.
D. The executives decided to downsize the company, several, employees lost jobs.

i would lay on the ground, and wait for the earth to simply take me back!

- sincerely, ouma

voracity is the noun corresponding to the adjective voracious, which means (1) eager to consume a great amount of food, or (2) marked by an insatiable appetite. veracity is far more common than the rare voracity, so the latter is sometimes used in place of the former.

to eliminate ambiguous remote or broad reference it is necessary to focus on anaphoric reference. by definition "anaphoric reference means that a word in a text refers back to other ideas in the text for its meaning." the references should be clear and leave no room for ambiguity.

in the first case the pronoun it probably refers to the car but it has not been mentioned before so we should replace it for the car. in doing so the statement becomes clear.

in sentence number   two   the pronoun he refers to charles dickens the author. yet, the first half of the sentence is about the book a tale of two cities. to repair this it would be better to rephrase the first half : after i read   a tale of two cities by dickens, he so as to remove the remote reference.