Question

“They turned the pages, which were yellow and crinkly, and it was awfully funny to read words that stood still instead of moving the way they were supposed to-on a screen, you know”.
(a) Who are ‘they’ in this extract?
(b) Which book had yellow and crinkly pages?
(c) What do the yellow and crinkly pages reveal about the book?
(d) What did ‘they’ find funny? Why?
​ NCERT class IX
English
chapter :-1 The Fun they had

Answer 1

a) 'They' refers to Margie and Tommy in this extract.

b) The real book which Tommy found had yellow and crinkly pages.

c) The yellow and crinkly pages reveal that the book was very old.

d) Margie and Tommy found reading the words were very funny because the words stood still instead of moving the way they supposed to-on a screen.