I am not alive, but I grow; I don't have lungs, but I need air; I don't have a mouth, but water kills me. What am I?

I am the black child of a white father, a wingless bird, flying even to the clouds of heaven. I give birth to tears of mourning in pupils that meet me, even though there is no cause for grief, and at once on my birth, I am dissolved into air. What am I?

By using 'because' continuously three times, can you make an English statement ?

I have eight fingers and two thumbs but I do not live. What Am I?

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Like you see, some letters have gone missing from these words that contain the IE pair at some or the other place. The letters that will be used to fill the blanks are given below. Use them and form meaningful words. Can you do that?

A, C, D, F, H, K, L, M, N, N, O, R, R, S, S, S, T, T, Y and Y.

It is always ahead of me yet I can never see it. What is it?

I look at you, you look at me, I raise my right, you raise your left. What am I?

What is in seasons, seconds, centuries and minutes but not in decades, years or days?

What is always in front of you but can’t be seen?

What English word has three consecutive double letters?