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Develop the following outline into a short story in about 150-200 words:

An old lady on road—a biker with a pillion-rider—pulls her gold chain—chased by a young man—chain snatchers caught—beaten and handed over to the police.

An old lady was travelling through road after covering some distance she was chased by a bike and the rider and co rider was wearing helmet and they snatched her gold chain and increased the speed of the motorbike to the highest possible extent suddenly people rushed there hearing the old lady’s cry due to pain and the bike rushed after covering some distance the bike met with an accident and the two thief fall down and injured but they tried to escape people chased them and caught them and returned the old lady’s chain and handed over the thieves to police.


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My uncle Peter lived in a huge house near the beach.


eg. lived in a


I usually spent our vacations there with him.


(a) _ _ _


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(b) _ _ _


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(c) _ _ _


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(d) _ _ _


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(e) _ _ _


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(f) _ _ _


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(g) _ _ _


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