Read the text and answer the question below number 18-20! One day, I met my friend Syarla in the hallway at school. Usually, she is smiling and happy. She plays for the school basketball team and she is the only girl in the entire team. That day however, I was shocked to see her crying. She tried to hide it, but I knew something was wrong. I patted her on the shoulder and said, “Syarla are you okay? What happened?”. “It’s just ... I can’t believe it. I don’t understand ..”. “What is it?” I asked her. I couldn’t imagine what the problem was. And when she told me, I couldn’t believe it, either. “I am not in the basketball team anymore,” she said and started crying again “I patted her on the shoulder...” The underlined word means....

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Read the text and answer the question below number 18-20!

One day, I met my friend Syarla in the hallway at school. Usually, she is smiling and happy. She plays for the school basketball team and she is the only girl in the entire team. That day however, I was shocked to see her crying. She tried to hide it, but I knew something was wrong. I patted her on the shoulder and said, “Syarla are you okay? What happened?”. “It’s just ... I can’t believe it. I don’t understand ..”. “What is it?” I asked her. I couldn’t imagine what the problem was. And when she told me, I couldn’t believe it, either.
“I am not in the basketball team anymore,” she said and started crying again

“I patted her on the shoulder...”
The underlined word means....