Question

II. Answer the following with reference to the story.

1. “I wouldn’t throw it away.”

(i) Who says these words?

(ii) 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?​

Answer 1

Answer:

(i) Tommy said these words

(ii) it refer to an ancient book

(iii) the speaker is comparing the book printed on paper with the telebook on computer screen

Answer 2

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Answer:

Q1. “I wouldn’t throw it away.”      

1. Who says these words?
2. What does ‘it’ refer to?
3. What is it being compared with by the speaker?

Ans:    

1. Margie says these words.
2. It refers to that real book that Tommy found.
3. The speaker compares it with a telebook.

Q2. “ Sure, they had a teacher, but it wasn’t a regular teacher. It was a man.”  

1. Who does ‘they’ refer to?
2. What does ‘regular’ mean here?
3. What is it contrasted with?

Ans:    

1. ‘They’ refer to the people of the old times.
2. Here, regularly refers to the mechanical teacher then they had.
3. It is contrasted with a normal teacher of earlier times, who was a living human being.