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Punctuation, Answer Key, A., 2., Have you ever visited Jakarta, the capital of Indonesia?, 3., The office of the District Education Officer is located in this area., 4., Where did you go in the month of December?, 5., India won independence on 15th August, 1947., 6., From which university did you get your MA in English?, 7., Vineet asked his friends to wait at the bus stop till 9:15 a.m., 8., The day after Durga Puja, my parents took us to Hazaribagh to visit our, grandparents., B., 2., William Shakespeare’s play ‘Macbeth’ is a tragedy., 3., If you are unable to understand this problem, I’Il explain it., 4., The children’s dresses were lying on the bed., 5., Meera, can I borrow your book for a day?, 6., Sheela looks happy; perhaps, she has scored good marks., 7., Mita said, ‘You’ll be happy to know that we are going for a holiday.’, 8., The landlord said to the tenant, ‘I hope you are happy with the house.’, C., Then it made a very loud noise. Alice looked down at its face. This time there could be, no mistake; it was a pig,, so she put the little animal down and it ran off quietly into the forest. Then she noticed the, Cheshire cat sitting, on the branch of a tree just in front of her. It smiled when it saw Alice. It looked friendly, she, thought. ‘Cheshire, cat,’ she began, rather shyly, ‘Would you tell me, please, which way I should go from here?’, ‘That depends on, where you want to get to,’ said the cat. ‘I don’t care very much where—,’ said Alice. ‘Then it, doesn’t matter, which way you go,’ said the cat. ‘—as long as I get somewhere,’ Alice explained. ‘Oh, you are, sure to do that,’, said the cat, ‘as long as you walk long enough.’, D., ‘I have lived now for many years in this lake and I have a large family of children and, grandchildren. For the, past few months, we have lived in terror for a monster centipede has discovered our home and, night after night,, it comes and carries off one of my family. I am powerless to save them. If it goes on much, longer like this, not, only shall I lose all my children but I myself must fall a victim to the monster. I am therefore very, unhappy and, in my extremity, I decided to ask the help of a human being. For many days, I have waited on, the bridge with, this intention in the shape of the horrible serpent-dragon that you saw. I hoped that some strong, brave man

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would come along but all who came this way were terrified and ran away as fast as they could, as soon as they saw me.'