An octagon is an 8 sided polygon
An octagon can have up to four pairs of parallel sides, but it need not have any.
It depends on the actual shape of that octagon. It CAN have two pairs of parallel sides. A regular octagon has 4 pairs of parallel sides.
It can, but it need not.
Any shape that is an 8 sided figure is called an octagon
An octagon is any figure that has 8 sides, no one said that all of the sides had to be the same length.
Eight sides to an octagon.
It can have 2 parallel sides, but it need not have any.
No kind of octagon has six sides. An octagon has 8 sides. A hexagon has 6 sides.
An octagon need not have any sides that are vertical.
On a regular polygon (the octagon that was represented to you in grade 2), its usually 45 degrees. Although, an octagon is any polygon with eight sides so it doesn't have to be regular, it can be any shape with sides. So it may be different for your octagon.
An octagon has 8 sides
An octagon has 8 sides and a pentagon has 5 sides.