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Question
Find the sentence in the lesson that have the phrasal verbs given below. Match them with their meaning.
ramble on - have a good relationship with
Solution
ramble on − speak or write without focus
Anyone could ramble on and leave big spaces between the words, but the trick was to come up with convincing arguments to prove the necessity of talking.
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