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1) There are hundred apple trees in this orchard.
2) If you go by train, you can have quite comfortable journey, but make sure you get express, not train that stops at all stations.
3) If you go by train, you can have a quite comfortable journey, but make sure you get an express, not a train that stops at all stations.
4) There was a knock on the door. I opened it and found a small dark man in a blue overcoat and woollen cap.
5) He said he was an employee of a gas company and had come to read a meter.
6) But I had a suspicion that he wasn’t speaking truth because meter readers usually wear peaked caps.
7) However, I took him to a meter, which is in a dark corner under the stairs (meters are usually in the dark corners under the stairs).
8) I asked if he had a torch; he said he disliked torches and always read meters by light of the match.
9) I remarked that if there was a leak in a gas pipe, there might be an explosion while he was reading a meter.
10) He said, “As a matter of fact, there was an explosion in the last house I visited; and Mr Smith, owner of the house, was burnt in the face. He was holding a lighted match at the time of the explosion.”
11) To prevent a possible repetition of this accident, I lent him a torch.
12) He switched on a torch, read a meter and wrote the reading down on the back of the envelope.