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Question
Frame illustrative sentence to distinguish the meaning of the word in the following cluster.
patients – patience – patents
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Solution
I saw a large number of patients standing in a queue in front of the Government Hospital.
The patience of the gardener got paid well when the garden bloomed.
No other scientist in the world has got so many patents as Edison did.
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