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Solve the following problem using Python, implementing the functions described below, one line at a time
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Description:
 def tags(self):
 """Return combined POS and NER tags."""

        tags = self.pos_tags
        for i, tag in enumerate(self.ner_tags):
            if tag is not None:
                tags[i] = tag
        return tags