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प्रश्न
Explain the use of the adjective in the following phrase:
Brackish lakes
उत्तर
Brackish lakes: The salty lakes of the Tibetan Plateau
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Fill in the blank with comparative, superlative, and positive forms of the correct adjective in the bracket.
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(i) She muttered in reply and we looked at Jeevan for a quick interpretation.
(ii) These are two complete sentences underlying the above sentence.
- She muttered in reply.
- We looked at Jeevan for a quick interpretation.
These two sentences are put together by using the coordinating conjunction ‘and’.
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Sentence ‘a’ and ‘b’ are Simple Sentences.
Each of them has only one subject and one predicate.
Sentence ‘a’ and ‘b’ can be written in another way.
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This is a complex sentence.
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| UNCLIPPED | CLIPPED |
| chimpanzee | |
| photo | |
| mike | |
| cafeteria | |
| gas | |
| helicopter | |
| telephone | |
| varsity | |
| memo | |
| influenza | |
| hippo | |
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| fan | |
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| pram | |
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