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Vijay suprises he never did imagine that there must be a place where water is will be so scarce. His cousin laughed at Vijay and said, "Vijay, you uses too much water everyday. "Soon there will be less rain and you may have the same problems.
You use apostrophe to show posession like dog's toy or Danica's phone!
Hyperbole, it should not be taken literally.
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The word "protracted" means lasting longer than expected, or unusually long, so what protracted most clearly means based on the context of the excerpt is how the time period of celestial motion studies must have lasted unusually long.
The themes of a story contains well its like a background for it. The Symbols are kinda like the themes but its not completely (im so sorry)