Answer the following with reference to the story.
1. “I wouldn't throw it away."
(1) Who says these words?
(it) 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?
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Chapter - the fun they had
class 9th
Beehive
English
Answers
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ans2 compared with the speaker
Answer:
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Explanation:
1.
(i) Tommy said these words.
(ii) 'it' refers to the television screen, on which you could rear over a million books.
(iii) Tommy is comparing the television screen to the real books in earlier times in which words were printed on paper. He thought that after reading such books, one would have to throw them away. However, he would never have to throw away his telebooks.
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2.
(i) They refers to the students who studied in the old kinds of schools centuries before the time the story is set in.
(ii) Here regular refers to the teacher that Tommy and Margie had.
(iii) The mechanical teacher is contracted with the teacher of the earlier times, who was a human being.
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