"houston is a large city" is the least relevant piece of information
It describes the setting.
It establishes the Narrator.
It sets up the situation.
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The best sentence for summarizing this passage is:
T<span>he emperor rewards his subjects for jumping over and under a stick.
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Do you know, what punctuation marks are? Punctuation marks are symbols that indicate the structure and organization of written language; as well as intonation and pauses to be observed when reading aloud. Full stop, comma, semicolon. question mark etc are punctuation marks.