As you read the text of The Lord of the Rings, remember that the excerpt consists of a conversation between Frodo and Gandalf. Readers have to use inference to gather details about the setting. In the first two paragraphs of the excerpt, why can you infer that the Shire is a place?

How does this image the reader to understand seismographs?

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.

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