Question

How cruel shylock was to demand his pound of flesh! (Begin : It was cruel......)

Answer 1

The given sentence can be written as per the direction as shown below:

It was very cruel of Shylock to demand one pound of Antonio's flesh.

or

It was exceedingly cruel of Shylock to demand one pound of Antonio's flesh.

or

It was outrageously cruel of Shylock to demand one pound of Antonio's flesh.

Answer 2

Answer:

It was cruel for Shylock to demand a pound of flesh from Antonio.

Explanation:

Here the word ‘it’ is used as a pronoun and is treated as a third-person singular number.

The word ‘it’ has various uses in the language and the meaning changes according to the position of it in the sentence. It is usually used to represent some earlier things for easy identification.

So, here we have used 'it' to describe the act of Shylock.