Tell my where to insert a pair of parentheses somewhere in this sentence. mary realized after thinking for a whole minute that she had left her wallet at the park.

Mary realized (after thinking for a whole minute) that she had left her wallet at the park.

The reason they go right there is because parenthesis are for inserting an idea that doesn't necessarily need to be there. If you took the parenthesis out with the words, the sentence would still make sense.

Mary realized that she had left her wallet at the park.

when making an inference, the reader should be sure to support the inference with

evidence

a is an educated guess about what will happen.

c. prediction

when new information proves that a reader's prediction is wrong, the reader should

make a new prediction based on the new information.

this answer to this question is c. allegory

why?

stories with allegories have a hidden symbolic meaning with a theme. the hidden meaning can be political, or other real life problems.