Question

“Don’t go across the pond today, children,” she said as she kissed them, is a warning

to Harry and Annie for getting them:

(i) careful to cross the icy pond.

(ii) alert if they go for sliding on the ice in the pond.

(iii) cautious lest they be drowned in the pond.

(iv) frightened to cross the pond unless somebody was with them..​

Answer 1

(ii) Alert if they go for sliding on the ice in the pond is a warning to both Harry and Annie.

Explanation:

• This question is from unseen passages class 9.

• Both Harry and Annie are children in the story. They are also the main characters of it.

• Both of them loved travelling hence they used to pretend as travellers making their way across the country.

• They wanted to go to their dreamland.

Answer 2

Explanation:

careful to cross the icy pond.