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Sundarnaz Posted 8 years ago
Essay & Composition Writing

The water wheel

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He put the nest in the water. It floated towards the water wheel and was caught by one of its buckets. It lifted the bucket up and dumped the content of the nest on the other side. Thus the eggs that were present in the nest got broken.

  

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sundarnaz He put the nest in the water. It floated towards the water wheel and got caught in one of its buckets. As the wheel revolved, the content of the nest was dumpe d on the other side, and thus the eggs (that were present) in the nest got broken.

  • sundarnaz He put the nest in the water.
  • It floated towards the water wheel and got caught in one of its buckets.
  • As the wheel revolved, the content of the nest was dumpe d on the other side, and thus the eggs (that were present) in the nest got broken.
  • CJ's explanation about "got caught" in this context is the reason for retaining it .
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sundarnazHe put the nest in the water. It floated towards the water wheel and got caught in one of its buckets. As the wheel revolved, the content of the nest was dumped on the other side, and thus the eggs (that were present) in the nest got broken.

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He put the nest in the water. It floated towards the water wheel and was caught by one of its buckets. It lifted the bucket up (I cannot imagine that a nest can lift a water wheel bucket!) and dumped the content of the nest on the other side. Thus the eggs that were present in the nest got broken.

He put the nest in the water. It floated towards the water wheel and got caug

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