Question

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

Answer:

1)who does they refer to

Answer 2

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A》They refers to the students who studies in the old kind of schools centuries before the time the story is set in.

B》Here, 'regular' refers to the mechanical teachers that Tommy and Margie had. According to author, centuries later this would be the norm.

C》The mechanical teacher is contrasted with the teacher of the earlier times, who was a human being.