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B. Were swimming
I'm assuming the underlined conjunctions are <em>both </em>and <em>and </em>(because you didn't underline any, and those are the only two conjunctions in the sentence).
Those conjunctions are called correlative conjunctions - this means that they are connecting two items which are equally important. So, this woman saw both Billie Holiday and Ella Fitzgerald - and both of those artists are important to the woman.
Answer:
The inference that can be made based on the details in the excerpt is that professional writers in ancient Egypt were highly skilled.
Explanation:
The passage presents evidence of how writing was an exclusive skill in Egyptian society. It was not taught to everyone in society at large but only government officials, administrators, and doctors or religious figures. The Rosetta Stone has helped Egyptologists to translate ancient Egyptian because there is an Ancient Greek translation of the hieroglyphs on the stone that was discovered in 1799.
