If the wrong word is used below, change it. if there is no error, click "submit answer." ? until the old woman offered to buy professor moody a milkshake, he didn't feel like talking about what he had scene at the circus that day.

the word that best matches the meaning of the expression "went to the big ocean" is died.

the goldfish died, which is why the father looks at the children mournfully. the "big ocean" is the father's way of saying fish heaven. he could have just said that the goldfish died, but this way, the children imagine the fish in a bigger, better place instead of just picturing a dead fish.

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