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This narrative is written in the first person - using ‘I’. Rewrite the following sentence using ‘Helen Keller/Young Helen’ appropriately in place of ‘I’ and making other necessary changes in the sentence.
On entering the door I remembered the doll I had broken.
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Solution
On entering the door, young Helen remembered the doll she had broken.
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