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The government of Venezuela has [seized / sized] nearly 4 million children's toys from a toy distributor. It will give the toys to children for [freely / free] or at discounted prices in [time / timing] for Christmas. The government says the distributor was unfairly [charged / charging] high prices for the toys, which [meant / meaning] only the richest people could buy them. Venezuela has one of the highest rates of inflation in the world. This is the rate [at / as] which prices go up. The IMF says the rate could be as [many / much] as 2,000 per cent in 2017. Many Venezuelans can't [afford / affords] to buy non-essential items like toys. Even a jar of Nutella can cost [halve / half] the monthly minimum salary. In the past few months, Venezuela has also ordered price [cuts / rips] on clothes.

In [totally / total] , the government seized 3,821,926 toys from two warehouses. It tweeted: "Our [children / child] are sacred. We will not let anyone [rob / robe] them at Christmas. Boys and [girls / girl] of this country will have a happy Christmas." The government said the toy distributor was keeping the toys [up / out] of the shops [to / for] reduce their supply and so increase prices. The government [also / and] accused the company of buying them with dollars it got at very low rates several years [age / ago] and now wanted to sell the toys at much higher prices. The toy distributor has said it has done nothing [wrong / wrongly] and was not trying to sell the toys at high prices to make huge profits. It said many of the toys were [out / up] of fashion.