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How long do you suppose they’d go on calling me, ‘Goggles’ if they knew that you were my father? They’d chuck it tomorrow, and look up to me like anything, I do call rotten. (a) Who does the word ‘they’ here refer to? (b) Who is the speaker here?
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Read the extracts given below and answer the questions that follow:
How long do you suppose they’d go on calling me, ‘Goggles’ if they knew that you were my father? They’d chuck it tomorrow, and look up to me like anything, I do call rotten.
(a) Who does the word ‘they’ here refer to?
(b) Who is the speaker here?
(c) What is ‘rotten’ in the eyes of the speaker?
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30/01/2021 5:33 pm
(a) Harold’s schoolmates.
(b) Harold is the speaker.
(c) Bill’s idea of withdrawing from the contest is ‘rotten’ in the eyes of the speaker.
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