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Flamingo Prose CH 1 The Last Lesson — ENGLISH STD 12 Commerce — Question

Gujarat BoardEnglish MediumSTD 12 CommerceENGLISHFlamingo Prose CH 1 The Last Lesson5 Marks
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(prison, explained, logical, beautiful, well, enslaved, stroke, amazed, carefully, almost) 
Then, from one thing to another, M. Hamel went on totalk of the French language, saying that it was the most _______ language in the world - the clearest, the most _______; that we must guard it among us and never forget it, because when people are _________, as long as they hold fast to their language it is as if they had the key to their _______ Then he opened a grammar and read us our lesson. I was _______ to see how _______I understood it. All he said seemed so easy, so easy! I think, too, that I had never listened so _______ and that he had never _______  everything with so much patience. It seemed _______ as if the poor man wanted to give us all he knew before going away, and to put it all into our heads at one _______.After the grammar, we had a lesson in writing.
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Beautiful, logical, enslaved, prison, amazed, well, carefully, explained, almost, stroke,

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