Question

Find sentences in the story with negative words, which express the following ideas emphatically.

1. The trees lost all their leaves.

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2. The letter was addressed to God himself.

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3. The postman saw this address for the first time in his career.

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Answer 1

1. The trees lost all their leaves.

Not a leaf remained on the trees.

2. The letter was addressed to God himself.

It was nothing less than a letter to God.

3. The postman saw this address for the first time in his career.

Never in his career as a postman had he known that address.