Ch 1 the passive voice
read the extract and answer the following questions
instead she was sent what my mother calls a 'progressive school; this meant my sister throught she know more about everything then I did and pestered me about stuff I did not care about especially English grammar stuff.
(a)-name the lesson and the auther
(b)-give the meaning of progressive and pestered.
(c)-who is 'I' here?
(d)-Is the speaker older than his sister ?how do you know?
Answers
1.The author is the elder brother or sister (here we will define the author as' A')The author is maybe offended that he was not sent to progressive school as his or hers siblings. And worried about his little sibling has much more knowledge and is smarter than 'A ' in english grammar that he did not cared at 'A' s' age.
2.Here,Pestered means,trouble or annoy (someone) with frequent or persistent requests or interruptions.
Here,Progressive means a school ,an educational system that allows flexibility in learning procedures, based on activities determined by the needs and capacities of the individual child, the aim of which is to integrate academic with social development.
3.The Author He or she .
4.Yes, the author is older than A sister because he says A sister is sent to
'progressive school '.