Read the following passage and answer the question. “i’ll give him a trail to follow,” muttered rainsford, and he struck off from the rude path he had been following into the trackless wilderness. why does the author write “struck off” instead of “walked off”? because “struck off” implies that he struck someone because “struck off” implies that he did it quickly and forcefully because “struck off” implies that he did it slowly and forcefully because “struck off” implies that he did it cautiously

The greatest gift the sumerians gave the world was the invention of writing. the sumerians were a 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.