QUES: Microsoft fell 5 percent before the open to $ 27.45 from Thursday 's close of $ 28.91 .

Shares in Microsoft slipped 4.7 percent in after-hours trade to $ 27.54 from a Nasdaq close of $ 28.91 .

The sentences above mean the same or not?
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ANS: no

QUES: The family stopped for lunch at Freshwater Spit , where several children went to the water 's edge to play in the surf shortly after noon .

Several children , including the 8-year-old , went down to the water 's edge to play in the surf .

The sentences above mean the same or not?
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ANS: no

QUES: BellSouth also added 654,000 net long-distance customers in the third quarter .

BellSouth added 111,000 DSL customers during the quarter to reach a total of 1.3m subscribers .

The sentences above mean the same or not?
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ANS:
no