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Tamil Nadu Board of Secondary EducationHSC Science Class 12

Use the gerundial form of the verb in the bracket and fill in the blank. Huckleberry Finn was responsible for ______(signal).

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Use the gerundial form of the verb in the bracket and fill in the blank.

Huckleberry Finn was responsible for ______(signal).

Fill in the Blanks
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Solution

Huckleberry Finn was responsible for signaling (signal).

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Chapter 5.1: The Status of Tamil as a Classical Language - Grammar- Non-finite verbs [Page 156]

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Chapter 5.1 The Status of Tamil as a Classical Language
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