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Practically we take ground at some point or other in a circuit this is done because:-

any voltage measuring device gives you only the potential difference so if we desire to measure the voltage at a particular point A in the circuit (say using a multimeter) we are bound to take another point in a circuit B of known potential.

ex. if we know that the potential of point B is 4 V

and with the help of voltage measuring device we put one of the leads at A and another lead at B and measure the potential difference between them , let theis value be V volts.

VAB=V

VA-VB=V

VA=V+VB

VA=4+V

so, to avoid these confusions we take the point B as ground and arbitrarily chose its potential to be 0 , so that the measures potential difference would actually represent the voltage of the given point A

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