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Identify a sentence and a phrase which tells us that the story took place in summer.

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Identify a sentence and a phrase which tells us that the story took place in summer.

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‘In summer months, he had to travel far to get water for his thirsty crops’. This . sentence tells us that the story took place in summer. The phrase is ‘thirsty crops’.

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Chapter 1.1: Who Owns the Water? - Read and Understand C [Page 77]

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Samacheer Kalvi English - Term 3 Class 6 TN Board
Chapter 1.1 Who Owns the Water?
Read and Understand C | Q C. 3. | Page 77

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