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He
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Pronoun
  was
Auxiliary
  the
Determiner
  first
1st
Adjective
  bishop
Noun
  of
Adposition
  Hong Kong
Hong Kong
  to
Particle
  visit
Verb
  the
Determiner
  mainland China
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He was the first bishop of Hong Kong to visit the mainland China.
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  1. first-person singular simple past indicative of be.
  2. third-person singular simple past indicative of be.
  3. (colloquial) Used in phrases with existential there when the semantic subject is (usually third-person) plural.
  4. second-person singular simple past indicative of be; were.
  5. (colloquial) first-person plural simple past indicative of be; were.
  6. (colloquial) third-person plural simple past indicative of be; were.

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Hong Kong

  1. A city in southeastern China, located on an island east of the Pearl River delta in the South China Sea; formerly owned by the United Kingdom.
  2. An island in southeastern China, Hong Kong Island, the site of the city of the same name, lying off Guangdong (Canton) province.
  3. A special administrative region of China, which includes the city and island of the same name as well as nearby islands and the Kowloon Peninsula.
  4. A colony of the United Kingdom, which previously administered the area of the present-day Chinese special administrative region.

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mainland China

  1. The People's Republic of China, viewed as the general geographical region administered by the PRC in the aftermath of the Chinese Civil War (as opposed to Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan which are coastal and insular areas)
  2. Also used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see mainland, China.

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