Question

Read the following extracts and answer the questions that follow each:

The Macdonalds lived next door. They had five children. Looking through a gap in the fence the little girl saw them playing 'tag' in the evening. The father with the baby, Mao, on his shoulders, two little girls hanging on to his coat packets ran round and round the flower-beds, shaking with laughter. Once she saw the boys turn the hose on him- and he tried to catch them laughing all the time.
Then it was she decided there were different sorts of fathers.

(i) What were Macdonalds doing?

(ii) What was the father doing?

(iii) What did the boys do?

(iv) Explain: 'catch them laughing'.​

Answer 1

Answer:

Q1. Looking through a gap in the fence

Q2.playing tag

Q3.the boys turn the hose on him and he tried to catch them

Q4.As given they were playing tag so, the boys had turn the hose on him and he tried to catch them. As they were enjoying themselves they were laughing all the time