1. “We, the three of us, were the only ones who finished school.' a. Who are the 'we three'? b. Which place is the speaker talking about? c. Why did the others from the school not go to school?
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Explanation:
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1. “I wouldn’t throw it away.”
(i) Who says these words?
(ii) What does ‘it’ refer to?
(iii) What is it being compared with by the speaker?
2. “Sure they had a teacher, but it wasn’t a regular teacher. It was a man.”
(i) Who does ‘they’ refer to?
(ii) What does ‘regular’ mean here?
(iii) What is it contrasted with?
ANSWER:
1.
(i) Tommy says these words.
(ii) ‘It’ refers to the television screen.
(iii) Tommy is comparing the television screen with printed books of the earlier times.
2.
(i) The word ‘they’ refers to the students who studied in the old kind of schools, centuries before the time the story is set in.
(ii) Here, the term ‘regular’ refers to the mechanical teachers that Tommy and Margie has.
(iii) The mechanical teacher is contrasted with the teacher of the earlier times, who was a man.
