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Question
Frame illustrative sentence to distinguish the meaning of the word in the following cluster.
scraping – scrapping – scrubbing
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Solution
Scraping of NEET may help rural students to get into Government Medical Colleges.
Anil Ambani’s company suffered through several bankruptcies, resulting in the scrapping of many deals.
After scrubbing the stains for a long time, she found that the stain was gone but the cloth had got damaged.
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