Question

how would the sceners have been if Mrs pumphery had not overfied triki​

Answer 1

(a) The sweet things mentioned in the extract are cream cakes and chocolates.

(b) The speaker enquires if the sweet things have been cut down because these were spoiling Tricki’s health and he needed to be put on a strict diet.

(c) The phrase ‘cut down’ means ‘to reduce the quantity of something’.

(d) ‘Sour’ is its opposite.