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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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(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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