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It rained so heavily that they could not go for the picnic. (Rewrite: Using ‘too………………to’)
Solution
It rained too heavily for them to go for the picnic.
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| Pen names | Charles Willis, E.G.O’Brien |
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| Career | novelist, television host, inventor, and film screenwriter. |
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