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Explain the following phrase selected from the story in your own word and work with a partner to make sentence using these phrase: a rustic holiday - English

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Explain the following phrase selected from the story in your own word and work with a partner to make sentence using these phrase:

a rustic holiday

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The students who went on a rustic holiday to Kurangani forest were caught in a forest fire accident.

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अध्याय 2.3: A Shot in the Dark - Exercises [पृष्ठ ६४]

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सामाचीर कलवी English Class 11 TN Board
अध्याय 2.3 A Shot in the Dark
Exercises | Q 3. b) | पृष्ठ ६४

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(A) It is probable that the ship will reach the shore.
(B) In all ................................................................................. 


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Liberty cannot be divorced from equality.


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  • Rewrite the important points in your own simple language, in your notebook.
  • Make certain that your summary is less than half the length of the original passage.

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The schoolboys were in a happy mood.


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sleepy sleepier ______
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(ii) How to make a salad.

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Philip Sletherby was travelling by train to Brill Manor.

  1. The young man introduced himself as Bertie, the son of Saltpen Jago.
  2. Bertie needed three pounds desperately and asked Sletherby to lend it to him.
  3. All the time Sletherby was gazing at the door panel of the car, on which were the two crests – a demi-lion and a greyhound courant.
  4. He was received by Claude People. K.C., who had kept on talking about various things.
  5. Bertie had left his purse behind, after sealing an envelope with the crest on the purse.
  6. Bertie stated that it was the Jago crest. He further added that his mother’s hair was dark brown similar to his.
  7. While describing the appearance of Honario Saltpen-Jago, K.C. referred to her altered hairstyle.
  8. Sletherby realized that Bertie had not lied to him, but that he had mistaken him for fraud.
  9. He explained that the Saltpen crest was that of a demi-lion.
  10. Sletherby sat dumbstruck on learning that Mrs. Honario Saltpen Jago had changed her dark brown hair to a blonde, just five weeks ago.
  11. Sletherby pointed out to him that his mother’s letter had a greyhound courant crest.
  12. His companion in the train was a young man who was searching for something frantically
  13. Suspecting foul play, Sletherby did not give him any money, as he knew Mrs. Saltpen-Jago was a blonde.

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