Explain this quote in The Monkey's Paw this is the worst. Pathways a bog, and the road's a torrent. What does the road's a torrent mean?

Is the sentence the refree blew her whistle and both teams rushed onto the field a coumpound or simple sentence

The greatest gift the sumerians gave the world was the invention of writing. the sumerians were 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.

In romeo and juliet who are romeos parents