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By way of facts, he told me that business had picked up since the party conventions and that he was going to get off at Coketown. (a) Who is ‘he’ mentioned here? (b) Why did he want to get off at Coketown? (c) Give the meaning of ‘to get off'.
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01/02/2021 11:41 am
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Read the extracts given below and answer the questions that follow :
By way of facts, he told me that business had picked up since the party conventions and that he was going to get off at Coketown.
(a) Who is ‘he’ mentioned here?
(b) Why did he want to get off at Coketown?
(c) Give the meaning of ‘to get off'.
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01/02/2021 11:42 am

(a) ‘He’ is John A. Pescud of Pittsburgh, the travelling salesman for a plate- glass company.
(b) He wished to buy petunias for his wife.
(c) ‘to board down’.
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