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प्रश्न
"I think it would be nice if we moved quickly from here.”
- Who does ‘I’ refer to?
- Why did they want to move quickly from there?
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उत्तर
- I refers to‘Savita’s brother’.
- They wanted to move quickly from there, as they would be called in for a lot of explanation.
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