Question

"Question 2 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?

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Answer 1

Solution:

1.

i) Tommy says these words (I wouldn't throw it away)

ii) It refers to the television screen.

iii) It is being compared with the real book.


2.

i) It refers to the people of many centuries ago.

ii) Regular means here something of a lasting nature.

iii) It is contrasted with human teacher.

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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.