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प्रश्न
Why, according to Lynd, should taking medicines be one of the easiest actions to remember?
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उत्तर
Taking medicines should be one of the easiest actions to remember because the doctor has prescribed the medicine to recover from illness. Besides, there is a need to take it either before or after meals. Every time one takes meals, one should easily remember medicine.
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| c) Unfortunately he had made the highest bid. | |
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| f) The narrator on a sudden impulse added 50 more guineas, to the amount offered. | |
| g) His friend joined him then but left immediately unable to control his laughter. | |
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| j) After some time a picture was put up and a bid for 4000 guineas was raised. | |
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| l) The narrator kept bidding just for fun. | |
| m) The picture was given away to the other bidder and the narrator was saved from humiliation. | |
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