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Anonymous Posted 7 years ago
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This monument is a tribute to a great poet, Thiruvalluvar, who has written over 1000 little poems in Tamil.

  

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This monument is a tribute to a great poet Thiruvalluvar, who wrote over 1000 little poems in Tamil. "Has written" would indicate that he is still alive.

  • This monument is a tribute to a great poet Thiruvalluvar, who wrote over 1000 little poems in Tamil.
  • "Has written" would indicate that he is still alive.
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This monument is a tribute to a great poet Thiruvalluvar, who wrote over 1000 little poems in Tamil.

"Has written" would indicate that he is still alive.

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This monument is a tribute to the great poet Thiruvalluvar, who wrote over 1,000 kurals in Tamil.

That is a little long for a caption. You usually want to put that much information in the body of the text, and let the caption be brief, maybe "Thiruvalluvar Statue".

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