Question

Q.Read the extracts given below and answer the questions that

follow:

1) “He looked as if he could only have lots and lots of grandchildren.

As for my grandmother being young and pretty, the thought was

almost revolting. She often told us of the games she used to play as

a child.

a) Whom does ‘he’ refer to?

b) Why did the author find it hard to believe that his grandmother

was once young and pretty?

c) What things would she tell the narrator when he was young

d) Explain: ‘the thought was almost revolting.’​

Answer 1

a) he is poet's grandfather

b) The author find it hard to believe that his grandmother was once young and pretty because now she is old and her face was wrinkled and ugly and she now looks so old. how can she was once young and pretty.

c) This expression means it was very hard for the author to believe that once his grandmother was young, pretty, and beautiful. She had been the same for the last twenty years the author had seen her. So he assumed she had been the same all her life.

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