Well that's just not true

pareidolia goin crazy rn

@listening 'were' is the plural past tense of the verb 'to be'.

All you need to establish the subject-predicate relationship is that the physicists (the subject) were puzzled (the predicate). Everything else, what puzzled them, is just window dressing.

Someone please correct my logic for #4 : During his presidency, Thomas Jefferson expanded the territories of America by acquiring the Louisiana purchase.

[Subject-noun] Thomas Jefferson

[Predicate-verb] expanded

[Modifying "expanded"] during his presidency

[Modifying "expanded"] by acquiring the Louisiana purchase

[Predicate-object] America

[Modifying "America"] the territories of

I feel that "America" is as logically an object as "the territories" in this context. We are given these choices :

1. The object is America. What part of America? "The territories of America".

   OR

2. the object is "the territories", i.e. the concept of all territorial polities. Which territories? Those of America.

It just seems simpler to parse the sentence the way I did. Am I wrong?

Analogues:

Tiger - Not all sigmas have rizz. After all, most rizzlers are known to not be skibidi.

Disney - Being GOATed comes with the sauce. The sauce can be obtained raw. Otherwise, you have to be awesome. Chad is GOATed with the sauce. He's got that sauce, however he has never been known as awesome. Therefore Chad must be GOATed with that raw sauce.

Trash Bin - The man is lowkirkuinely shot. His viscera have been torn from his body at a northeasterly angle. The man with the gun is positioned southwest of the dead man. He is kissing the weapon, the way he does after any shooting. Therefore, the man with the gun lowkirkuinely shot the dead man.

If this extends to eating large pizzas in one sitting, then I am well on my way to 180