Rewrite the following sentences in the ways instructed:
(i) You could pay eight times the going rate for a 'lightning call'.
(Rewrite it using modal auxiliary showing compulsion.)
(ii) I spent my high school years in Calcutta.
(Rewrite it using past perfect tense.)
(iii) Telephones were a rarity.
(Make it a rhetorical question.)

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(i) You must pay eight times the going rate for a 'lightning call'.
(ii) I had spent my high school years in Calcutta.
(iii) Weren't telephones a rarity?

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(i) You must pay eight times the going rate for a 'lightning call'. (ii) I had spent my high school years in Calcutta. (iii) Weren't telephones a rarity?

(i) You must pay eight times the going rate for a 'lightning call'.
(ii) I had spent my high school years in Calcutta.
(iii) Weren't telephones a rarity?