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प्रश्न
Given below is a list of items or features you find in a good school. Study the list and classify the items as individual and common.
textbooks – uniform – smart classroom – laboratory – competent teachers – library – mid-day meals – blackboard – stationery – playground – sports equipment washrooms
| Individual | Common |
| e.g. textbooks | playground |
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उत्तर
| Individual | Common |
| e.g. textbooks | playground |
| uniform | smart classroom |
| stationery | library |
| teachers | laboratory |
| mid-day meals | washroom |
| sports equipment | blackboard |
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| l) The narrator kept bidding just for fun. | |
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| n) His friend had left the place roaring with laughter at the narrator’s predicament. | |
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