Question

"We grovelled round for half an hour, and found sixteen.He said he
hoped we had got them all..."

a) Why did he come to the speaker?
b) What does them refer to?
C) What does grovelled mean?​

Answer 1

The writer's friend had come just to help him find ball bearings.

Explanation:

• Grovelled means to crawl. When a person has their face downwards and they lie or move in the same way. It is said to be groveling.

• These questions are from an interesting story called A Bicycle in Good Repair.

• The narrator is one of the main characters of this story. He wants to fix his machine. The ball bearings play an important role in repairing the machine.

• They found sixteen balls.