Activity 1. Put a check mark ( 7 ) in the blank if the sente pattern and ( X) if not.
1. An old lady served the palace for many years.
2. Her daughter confidently replied.
3. The prince announced a challenge.
4. Three months passed very fast.
5. No shoots appeared in her pot.
6. The young woman tried everything.
7. The day of the audience arrived.
8. The girl appeared with her plantless pot.
9. The prince inspected all the plants.
10. The prince and the girl got married.
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Which best expresses the irony present in this passage?

The greatest gift the sumerians gave the world was the invention of writing. the sumerians were a wealthy people. they needed some way to keep track of what they owned. they began drawing pictures. they used a reed as a pen. they drew on soft pieces of clay. the soft clay was then dried in the sun. the tablet became a permanent record. later, the sumerian drawings changed into wedge-shaped symbols. this kind of writing is called cuneiform. by putting symbols together, the sumerians could write entire sentences.

That alligator hungry. vittles very scarce that time a season. his belly be pinchin him hard, now. but bruh deer is fat, and so he is in heavy trouble. the alligator there in front of him. the beagles there behind him. what bruh deer gone do? he sees the alligator and he hears the beagles. how does the author readers understand what the word pinchin means?