The movie, Pinocchio, shows the importance of honesty because their are two sorts of lies. Lies that have short legs are those that carry you a little distance but cannot outrun the truth and the consequences always catch up with the person who lied, and l<span>ies that have long noses are those that are obvious to everyone except the person who told the lie, which make the person who told the lie look ridiculous. Basically there's always a way for others to know if someone has been lying.</span>
The statement most accurately describes this excerpt is that it contains two dependent <u>clauses</u> and one independent clause.
<h3>What are dependent and independent clauses? </h3>
An independent clause is the main clause which is the subject and verb as well as complete as the sentence. However, the dependent clause is incomplete and<u> cannot stand alone</u>.
Therefore, "<u>after a strenuous climb</u>" and "<u>night was approaching rapidly</u>" are dependent clauses that become absolute due to the independent clause that is "hikers decided to make camp before reaching the summit."
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The answer is: figure out meaning based on what you already know and what the text says
To infer something from the passage, you need to read it and able to understand the meaning of the passage without actually put too much focus on the passage.
Passage inference could be considered as a reading skills. This usually tested when you do an SAT test to measure how much information you can gather from reading a certain text within a short period of time.
