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A simile is a figure of speech that directly compares two different things using words like “like” or “as.”

Example: "She is as brave as a lion." — compares bravery to a lion using "as".

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The train had already left the station.

The sentence follows correct subject-verb-object order: "The train" (subject) + "had already left" (verb) + "the station" (object).

It uses past perfect tense properly to show that the action (train leaving) was completed in the past.

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The apostrophe (') is mainly used to show possession (e.g., Ali’s book).

It can also show omissions in contractions (e.g., don’t = do not), but in this context, possession is correct.

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"Blew" is the past tense of "blow," which fits the sentence context.

The sentence becomes: "The wind blew strongly during the storm."

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The correct sentence is: "People saw a whole new side of him."

"A" is used because "whole" modifies a singular, countable noun ("side"), and the phrase starts with a consonant sound.

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In this sentence, “minute” means extremely small in size, describing the insect.

It is a homograph, spelled the same as "minute" (time), but pronounced differently and has a different meaning.

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Personification gives human actions to non-human things — here, the story is described as if it could jump.

Non-living things like a story cannot physically jump, which makes this an example of personification.

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"Four and a half" gives an exact quantity, making it a definite numeral adjective.

Definite adjectives specify a particular number or amount.

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The adjectives follow the correct order: opinion → size → age → color → material → noun.

"Charming" (opinion), "little" (size), "old" (age), "white" (color), "stone" (material), followed by "house" (noun).

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The sentence combines the two ideas using the relative adverb "where," which links the place (town) with the action (grew up).

This construction clearly expresses both the location and the action in a grammatically correct manner.