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Ankit Nandy from Lawrence High School, Bangalore
Subject :IEO    Class : Class 9

Ans 1: (Master Answer)

Admin from revisewise, Noida
Class : Class 1
That is used to introduce a restrictive relative clause.
Which is used to introduce a non-restrictive relative clause.
Example
The garden, that is adjacent to my house is beautiful.
The garden, which is adjacent to my house is beautiful.

In the first one the use of that implies that of all the gardens around my house, the one adjacent to my house is beautiful. It is a restrictive clause because it limits the scope of the noun i.e. garden.

In the second one, the purpose of the sentence is to convey that the garden is beautiful. However, by introducing clause i.e. which is adjacent to my house, the writer intends to present additional information to describe the noun i.e. garden.

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Appu Pramod from Indian School, Muscat
Subject :IEO    Class : Class 3

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Admin from revisewise, Noida
Class : Class 1
The correct answer is B.

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abhiso2006@gmail.com from silver oaks international school, sarjapur road
Subject :IEO    Class : Class 6

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Shaunak Mahapatra from Mount Litera Zee School, Contai
Class : Class 7
The answer would be D . As the noun ends with the letter 's' thus here we apply the plural possessive form of the noun . So the possessive form of John Keats will be John Keats'.

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Nived from GEMS New Millennium School, Dubai
Subject :IEO    Class : Class 4

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Aditya from DPS Whitefield, Bengaluru
Class : Class 4
No,the answer should be [b].

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Shivam Chablani from The Shriram Millenium School , Faridabad
Class : Class 5
The correct answer is a,an (option B), as the sound of "E" in European is like "Y" and we use an with letters which have a vowel sound. As the word Asian has the sound of "A" in the first letter, an will be used with it.

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Mridul Jain from Shishukunj International School Indore, Indore
Class : Class 9
The correct answer is a,an (option B), as the sound of "E" in European is like "Y" and we use an with letters which have a vowel sound. As the word Asian has the sound of "A" in the first letter, an will be used with it.

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Arnesh from DPS Mathura Road , New Delhi
Class : Class 6
B is the correct answer

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Mridul Jain from Shishukunj International School Indore, Indore
Class : Class 9
The correct answer is a,an (option B), as the sound of "E" in European is like "Y" and we use an with letters which have a vowel sound. As the word Asian has the sound of "A" in the first letter, an will be used with it.

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Anika S Kumar from Alphabets International school , Chennai
Class : Class 7
It should be C right ?

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Shuvangi Das from Vivekananda mission school, haldia
Class : Class 8
no its impossible

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Anshuman raj from STCS, Karnal
Class : Class 8
It’s not a sound of “Y”. It’s a sound of “U”

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Tathagat Sahoo from Tathagat Sahoo, Pune
Class : Class 4
the answer should be c because European ,Asian both start from vowels

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ishit from EUROSCHOOL THANE, THANE WEST
Class : Class 7
Can you please tell the answer of this question.Thank you.

Ans 11:

OISHIK KUNDU from Delhi Public school North kolkata, baranagar
Class : Class 4

Ans 12:

Ashlesha Goel from The Suncity School 37d, Gurgaon
Class : Class 5
B

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Hritvi from Podar International School, Mumbai
Subject :IEO    Class : Class 5

Ans 1:

yuvraj singh from DELHI PUBLIC SCHOOL, RAJKOT
Class : Class 5
B Is/Sold

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DEEPTANGSHU DATTAGUPTA from DPS South Bangalore, BANGALORE
Class : Class 7

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Pritika Sinharay from DPS Navi Mumbai , Navi Mumbai
Class : Class 9
According to me the answer is b)Is/sold.

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DEEPTANGSHU DATTAGUPTA from DPS South Bangalore, BANGALORE
Class : Class 7

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DEEPTANGSHU DATTAGUPTA from DPS South Bangalore, BANGALORE
Class : Class 7
"sell" is a quasi-passive verb which is used in active form but with passive force. e.g: Sugar sells cheap here. Sugar tastes sweet. So, answer (A) is also correct.

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Pritika Sinharay from DPS Navi Mumbai , Navi Mumbai
Class : Class 9
According to me the answer is b)Is/sold.

Ans 7:

Student from School, City
Class : Class 5
Mayank Gupta from Kulachi Hansraj Model School, New Delhi
Subject :IEO    Class : Class 7

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Arushi Ukil from Mahadevi Birla Shishu Vihar, Kolkata
Class : Class 7
The answer should be preoccupied.

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Iba Khan from DPS , Noida
Class : Class 7
preoccupied is quite similar to busyso i think the answer is marked wrong

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AARAV AGRAWAL from BIRLA DIVYA JYOTI, SILIGURI
Class : Class 7
It is preoccupied.. Coz being active doesn't always mean being busy..

Ans 4:

Pratham Dave from GNS, Bangalore
Class : Class 7
Shouldn't the answer be preoccupied ... because Preoccupied is literally the right synonym for busy . It shows the same in Oxford dictionary as well as Google dictionary

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Dhruv from Springdales, Dubai
Class : Class 9
the ans is preoccupiedimagine if i sayi am busyand i am preoccupiedand i am i am activeacive means ready to do or in energectic modenot busy

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Saksham Chanani from Sri Sri Academy, Kolkata
Class : Class 7
pre-occupied shoul be correct??

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Snigdha swaminath from Christ nagar higher secondary school , Trivandrum
Class : Class 7
EVEN IN GOOGLE DICTIONARY ITS SAYING PREOCCUPIED

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Abhay rajvanshi from Delhi Public School, Gurgaon
Class : Class 10

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Aarnav Grover from Anand Niketan Shilaj, Ahmedabad
Class : Class 7
I believe it should be Preoccupied. It is more appropriate.

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Jahnavi Chaudhari from Abhinava Vidyalaya, Pune
Class : Class 5
I too, think PREOCCUPIED should be appropriate

Ans 11:

Ashvik Banerjee from Mount Litera Zee School , Vasco
Class : Class 7
Preoccupied

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Shaurya from Mris 51 Gurugram, Gurugram
Class : Class 7

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Pitchairaj Bhuvaneswari from CS Academy, Erode
Class : Class 9
I think preoccupied is absolutely right (mostly, to be specific)!

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Shreyas Gupta from CHIREC International, Hyderabad
Class : Class 8
YUP ANSWER IS PREOCCUPIED

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Veerum Siria from Pawar Public School Kandivali, Mumbai
Class : Class 7
I too think answer should be C preoccupied but on the website it is given busy.

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Tamrashi Pani from National Public School, Bangalore
Class : Class 8
It is supposed to be PREOCCUPIED

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Anantha Narayanan M S from NPS Goaplapuram Chennai, Chennai
Class : Class 9
exactly!

Ans 18:

Kunal Kakaraddi from Vibgyor High Marathalli, Bangalore
Class : Class 7
Preoccupied is synonymous to busy and should be considered a right answer

Ans 19:

Arnav Nandan from ST PETERS COLLEGE AGRA, Agra
Class : Class 7
Checked on google, preoccupy is correct

Ans 20:

Chinmayee Madhava from Acharya Vidya Kula, Mysuru
Class : Class 7
i feel like both active and preoccupied are correct in different situations, like Ananyag said.

Ans 21:

Mohinder singh from Sacred heart convent school, Ludhiana
Class : Class 7
Ananyag is correct

Ans 22:

ABHIRAM from chirec, HYDERABAD
Class : Class 10
preoccupied

Ans 23:

Selva Akash from PSBB school,siruseri, Chennai
Class : Class 9
Hello Mayank Gupta. Akash here. The answer is A - Active.

Ans 24:

Kushal from Chirec, Hyderabad
Class : Class 7

Ans 25:

Shaurya Veer from Blooming Dales International School, Sri Ganganagar
Class : Class 8
preoccupied should be the answer as active means you are ready to do something but preoccupied means that you are engrossed in some work

Ans 26:

Pratyush Somawagol from Icon School of Excellence, Bengaluru
Class : Class 7
Preoccupied is more suitable

Ans 27:

Ayush Chauhan from Modern Public School, Bhiwadi
Class : Class 8
I also think that preoccupied is the correct answer.

Ans 28:

Gania Rathore from Vidya Mandir Estancia, Chennai
Class : Class 7
The answer should be preoccupied as being active doesn't always mean someone's busy.

Ans 29:

Adarsh Menon from Blue Ridge Public school, Pune
Class : Class 8
The answer is preoccupied-Class

Ans 30:

Adrija Ghosh from Summerfields School, Gurgaon
Class : Class 7
i also think that the correct answer is preoccupied

Ans 31:

Soumyadipta Bhattacharyya from ACS, Kolkata
Class : Class 7
I think answer C should be correct. For example- The phone line is preoccupied.Both option A and C are correct

Ans 32:

Aravind from FIS, Bangalore
Class : Class 8
Active means you are willing to do something with enthusiasm but preoccupied means you are currently focusing on something else and cannot attend any other task

Ans 33:

Inodaya M Sharma from SRDAV Public School, Dayanand Vihar, New Delhi
Class : Class 7
aren't both preoccupied and active considered synonyms of busy

Ans 34:

Som Chandrakant Moghe from The Blind Relief Association Nagpur Mundle English Medium School, Nagpur
Class : Class 10

Ans 35:

Ashwin Shridhar from Vidyashilp Academy, Bangalore
Class : Class 9
preoccupied is correct. for example, the phone line is busy.-the phone line is preoccupied

Ans 36:

Iba Khan from DPS , Noida
Class : Class 7
Being active can also mean to be energetic or full of stamina. Not only busy

Ans 37:

Taanvi from -, Bangalore
Class : Class 9
Yes, it must be C) Preoccupied... because that's synonymous to busy more than active

Ans 38:

Ananyag from HSV, Chennai
Class : Class 7
I think both preoccupied and active are correct in different context

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Hprakash09 from Billabong high Bhopal, Bhopal
Class : Class 7
I think that both Active and Preoccupied are applicable in different situations, hence both are valid options. This invalidates the question as the whole point is that the questions are supposed to have one answer.

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ARNAB MANDAL from NAVY CHILDREN SCHOOL, VIZAG
Class : Class 9
selva , u r wrong. it's preoccupied as synonym of busy is preoccupied

Ans 41:

Dheer Pandey from Sentia The Global School, Hyderabad
Class : Class 9
Yeah

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ANANYA SHAH from UDGAM SCHOOL FOR CHILDREN , AHMEDABAD
Class : Class 7
yes, I too think it should be preoccupied. Being active means to do extra-curricular activities, sports etc.

Ans 43:

Niharika from shishya, banglore
Class : Class 7
Yes, answer should be preoccupied

Ans 44:

Maria Puthussery from St.Patrick's Academy, Bangalore
Class : Class 7
I think preoccupied should be correct

Ans 45:

Ariha Ashish Khere from Swami Vivekanand High School, Mumbai
Class : Class 9
Preoccupied should be correct.

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Jasleen Kaur from apeejay school, Jalandhar
Subject :IEO    Class : Class 3

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Tejas Kumar from Global Indian International School, Noida
Class : Class 4

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Jibran Noorshah from Christ Academy, Bengaluru
Class : Class 5
The answer is (c) not (b). M is not a vowel.

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Aditi Shiv Shankar Jaiswal from Delhi Public School Jeddah, Jeddah
Class : Class 4

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LAKSHYA SINGH TOMAR from DPS NOIDA, NOIDA
Class : Class 3
I

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vineet8026@gmail.com from dps, Doha
Class : Class 1
The answer is "C"

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Jibran Noorshah from Christ Academy, Bengaluru
Class : Class 5
The answer is (b) not (a) or (c).

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anika from csnc, indore
Class : Class 3
why 'an'?

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Arjun Gourineni from CHIREC International School, Hyderabad
Class : Class 6
Please make me understand

Ans 9:

Mihir Rampally from VIBGYOR HIGH BALEWADI, Pune
Class : Class 6
The answer is an because m (em) p

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FALAAH QIDWAI from DPS NOIDA, NOIDA
Class : Class 4
it should be C

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Shayan Bari from Kendriya Vidyalaya, Katihar
Class : Class 7
He is an MP because a/an is defined on the basis of the sound, not the letter.

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Smarak from Winmore Academy, Bangalore
Class : Class 3

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Kashika from DPS Noida, Noida
Class : Class 4
B use the sound letter M we say an M.P in M.P letter A is vowel we stretch M and say am .p is he an am . p though we write M.P okay this question is for class 3 only it is not a wrong question

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Arjun Gourineni from CHIREC International School, Hyderabad
Class : Class 6
C

Ans 15:

Ayush Kumar from dpsnoida, Noida
Class : Class 5
maybe it is a class 4 or above question and maybe class3 students will learn about the rule later

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Arjun Gourineni from CHIREC International School, Hyderabad
Class : Class 6
B

Ans 17:

Krishnan from Grove school, Chennai
Class : Class 5
Krishnan Sriram Gurumoorthi from The Grove School,Alwarpet,Chennai.The correct answer is B an

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Ninad prasad kulkarni from Shrividya primary school, Aurangabad
Class : Class 3
M is not vowel, so how their comes ''a''?please explain.

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Sharvil Joshi from Orchid The International School, Pune
Class : Class 3
c

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RiptideMel from Modern Vidya Niketan Senior Secondary School Sec 17, Faridabad
Subject :IEO    Class : Class 9

Read the following passages and answer the questions that follow :
One day a farmer’s donkey fell down into a well. The animal cried piteously for hours as the farmer tried to figure out what to do.
Finally, he decided since the animal was old, and the well needed to be covered up anyway, it just wasn’t worth it to retrieve the donkey. So, the farmer invited all his neighbours to come over and help him. They all grabbed shovels, and began to shovel dirt into the well.
All the other farm animals were very upset about this, because the donkey was their friend. But they discovered there was nothing they could do to help him. At first, when the donkey realised what was happening, he cried horribly. Then, to everyone’s amazement, he quieted down. A few shovel loads later, the farmer finally looked down the well, and was astonished at what he saw.
With every shovel of dirt that hit his back, the donkey was doing something amazing. He would shake it off, and take a step up on the dirt as it piled up. As the farmer’s neighbours continued to shovel dirt on top of the animal, he would shake it off and take a step up. Pretty soon, everyone was amazed as the donkey stepped up over the edge of the well, and trotted off!
Moral : Life is going to shovel dirt on you, all kinds of dirt. But each trouble can be a stepping stone. What happens to you isn’t nearly as how you react to it. We can get out of the deepest wells just by not giving up!
The other farm animals were upset because _________.

A the donkey was their friend
B they were unable to do anything
C both A and B
D none of the above


The animals were upset that their friend, the donkey was about to die, not for they could not do anything.

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aryaman from chameli devi public school, indore
Class : Class 9
c

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Dhruv from salwan junior school, New Delhi
Subject :IEO    Class : Class 5

READ THE PASSAGE AND ANSEWER THE QUESTION
The Land of the Vikings
(From 'Peeps at many lands: Norway' by A. F. Mockler-Ferryman)
Who has not heard of the Vikings—the dauntless sea-rovers, who in the days of long ago were the dread of Northern Europe? We English should know something of them, for Viking blood flowed in the veins of many of our ancestors. And these fierce fighting men came in their ships across the North Sea from Norway on more than one occasion to invade England. But they came once too often, and were thoroughly defeated at the Battle of Stamford Bridge, when, as will be remembered, Harald the Hard, King of Norway, was killed in attempting to turn his namesake, King Harold of England, off his throne.
Norwegian historians, however, do not say very much about this particular invasion. They prefer to dwell on the great deeds of another King Harald, who was called "Fairhair," and who began his reign some two hundred years earlier. This Harald was only a boy of ten years of age when he came to the throne, but he determined to increase the size of his kingdom, which was then but a small one, so he trained his men to fight, built grand new ships, and then began his conquests. Norway was at that time divided up into a number of districts or small kingdoms, each of which was ruled over by an Earl or petty King, and it was these rulers whom Harald set to work to subdue. He intended to make one united kingdom of all Norway, and he eventually succeeded in doing so. But he had many a hard fight; and if the Sagas, as the historical records of the North are called, speak truly, he fought almost continuously during twelve long years before he had accomplished his task, and even then he was only just twenty-one years of age.
They say that he did all these wonderful things because a girl, named Gyda, whom he wanted to marry, refused to have anything to say to him until he had made himself King of a really big kingdom. He made a vow that he would not comb or cut his hair until he had conquered the whole country. He led his men to victory after victory, and at length fought his last great battle at Hafrsfjord (to the south of Stavanger). The sea-fight was desperate and long, but Harald's fleet succeeded in overpowering that of the enemy, and Sulki, King of Rogaland, as well as Erik, King of Hardanger, were slain. Then Harald cut and dressed his hair, the skalds composed poems in honour of the event, and for ever after he was known as Fairhair. He was truly a great Viking, and he did not rest content with the conquest of Norway alone; for he brought his ships across the North Sea and conquered the Isle of Man, the Hebrides, the Shetlands, and the Orkneys, and he lived to the age of eighty-three.

In his campaign to win a large kingdom, Harald 'Fairhair'

A led his men through many triumphs
B took his men through several victories and defeats
C slew the King of Rogaland, as well as Erik, King of Hardanger
D to expire at a specific age


Ans 1:

Nandana from St Thomas Residential School, Trivandrum
Class : Class 10
A

Ans 2:

Manya gupta from Loreto convent school, Lucknow
Class : Class 5
B

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Dhruv from salwan junior school, New Delhi
Subject :IEO    Class : Class 5

READ THE PASSAGE AND ANSEWER THE QUESTION
The Land of the Vikings
(From 'Peeps at many lands: Norway' by A. F. Mockler-Ferryman)
Who has not heard of the Vikings—the dauntless sea-rovers, who in the days of long ago were the dread of Northern Europe? We English should know something of them, for Viking blood flowed in the veins of many of our ancestors. And these fierce fighting men came in their ships across the North Sea from Norway on more than one occasion to invade England. But they came once too often, and were thoroughly defeated at the Battle of Stamford Bridge, when, as will be remembered, Harald the Hard, King of Norway, was killed in attempting to turn his namesake, King Harold of England, off his throne.
Norwegian historians, however, do not say very much about this particular invasion. They prefer to dwell on the great deeds of another King Harald, who was called "Fairhair," and who began his reign some two hundred years earlier. This Harald was only a boy of ten years of age when he came to the throne, but he determined to increase the size of his kingdom, which was then but a small one, so he trained his men to fight, built grand new ships, and then began his conquests. Norway was at that time divided up into a number of districts or small kingdoms, each of which was ruled over by an Earl or petty King, and it was these rulers whom Harald set to work to subdue. He intended to make one united kingdom of all Norway, and he eventually succeeded in doing so. But he had many a hard fight; and if the Sagas, as the historical records of the North are called, speak truly, he fought almost continuously during twelve long years before he had accomplished his task, and even then he was only just twenty-one years of age.
They say that he did all these wonderful things because a girl, named Gyda, whom he wanted to marry, refused to have anything to say to him until he had made himself King of a really big kingdom. He made a vow that he would not comb or cut his hair until he had conquered the whole country. He led his men to victory after victory, and at length fought his last great battle at Hafrsfjord (to the south of Stavanger). The sea-fight was desperate and long, but Harald's fleet succeeded in overpowering that of the enemy, and Sulki, King of Rogaland, as well as Erik, King of Hardanger, were slain. Then Harald cut and dressed his hair, the skalds composed poems in honour of the event, and for ever after he was known as Fairhair. He was truly a great Viking, and he did not rest content with the conquest of Norway alone; for he brought his ships across the North Sea and conquered the Isle of Man, the Hebrides, the Shetlands, and the Orkneys, and he lived to the age of eighty-three.

The Vikings came to England'once too often'. In this passage 'once too often' means.

A the Vikings invaded England many times
B the Vikings came too often to England and they ran out of supplies
C the Vikings caused trouble for themselves by invading England repeatedly
D the locals thought the Vikings came too often


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