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“I felt so very dependent and helpless. We are well off but what use of money when I cannot be independent,” (a) Who is ‘I’ in these lines? (b) Why did she feel dependent? (c) What does the phrase ‘well off’ mean?
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Read the extract given below and answer the questions /complete the sentences that follow:
“I felt so very dependent and helpless. We are well off but what use of money when I cannot be independent,”
(a) Who is ‘I’ in these lines?
(b) Why did she feel dependent?
(c) What does the phrase ‘well off’ mean?
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27/01/2021 6:44 pm

(a) The grandmother.
(b) She felt dependent because she was illiterate.
(c) Well off means prosperous.
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