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Question
Copy the first paragraph on page 92 in your notebook, carefully. Encircle all the puctuation marks with a coloured pencil/pen.
“Dear children ...................... ‘amen’.
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Solution
‘Dear children, Dr. Vikram says that, within a year, he wants to build scientific facilities near the sea coast, replacing all the settlements that now stand there. Now, can you give up your abode? Can I give up my abode? Can we give up God’s abode for such a great scientific mission?’ Dr. Kalam recalled how he witnessed ‘a pin drop silence for a long moment’. Then everyone got up, and the whole church reverberated with the deafening noise of a collective ‘amen’.
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