Question

Read the passage carefully and answer the unseen passage questions

Answer 1

Answer a) The author call conversation an 'instrument of education' because children spend more time at home then School and learn more than school such as how to talk, how to walk,etc.

b) Conversation based on trifles of dress, the gossips of the neighbourhood, the vanities of the world, etc.

c) Author thought that because houses where is no life and mrith the Children of those houses become dull and stupid.

d)discussation on rational subject can help children to think and reason.

e) i) neighbourhood ii) insensibly

Answer 2

The answers to the unseen passage questions:

1. The author calls conversation an 'instrument of education' because children spend more time at home than at School and learn more than school at home such as how to talk, how to walk, how to react etc.
2. Conversation based on trifles of dress, the gossips of the neighborhood, the cares of the household which press so heavily upon the parents etc. are bad for the children.
3. Author thought that because houses where there is no life and mirth the children of those households might become dull and stupid.
4. Discussions on rational subject can help children to think or reason.
5. i) Neighborhood means the same as the area near a particular place ii) Insensibly means the same as acts of foolishness.

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