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But I was not mistaken – for there was exactly the print of
a foot toes, heel, and every part of the foot.

I stood a long time thinking, but became more confused.
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At last I returned home very frightened looking behind me every
few steps.

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Language in use

Study the underlined words:

1. New Year’s Day is a very ancient custom.

2. Listen, your friends are calling you.

3. Why do you buy these things now?

4. One of my friends has won the first prize.

5. My friend did not know how to prepare kites.

6. Yesterday he was in Bengaluru.
You have already studied the use of the primary auxiliaries,
that is, the verbs ‘be’, ‘do’ and ‘have’. Anyway let us brush up
our knowledge of them with the help of the examples. Clues and
full sentences are given. Study them.

Clues Sentences
Look – Madhuri – dance Look, Madhuri is dancing.
Usually – she – not – dance – morn- Usually, she does not dance in the
ing morning.
Have – you – learn – dance? Have you learnt dancing?
That girl – dance – good – for near- That girl has been dancing well for
ly an hour nearly an hour.
I – not know – you can dance. I did not know you could dance.

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