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The Mayas and the Roman Empire invented a calendar, they were so advanced in astronomy. On the other hand, both had their own systems to write: Mayas had hieroglyphs and the Roman Empire Latin. Finally, both cultures were polytheistic, which means that believed in many Gods.
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The type of verbal is participle and the verbal phrase is “playing the piano”
Your question is very vague and therefore hard to understand but I would assume you are asking for the explanation of the pun.
This phrase is a pun because skiers ski down slopes, and going down hill is another way of saying not going very well. Old skiers never die, they just go down hill is a pun because skiers go down hills.