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30/01/2021 5:30 pm
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Read the extracts given below and answer the questions that follow:
“Tommy,” said Mr. Fisher, ignoring them all, “you think your Pas a commercial. He ain’t. He’s a fighting-man, doing his eight-stone-four ringside, and known to all the heads as ‘Young Porky.’”
(a) Who was Mr. Fisher?
(b) Whom did Mr. Fisher address?
(c) What does ‘ain’t’ stand for here? What else does it stand for?
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30/01/2021 5:31 pm
(a) Mr. Fisher was a boxing coach or trainer.
(b) Mr. Fisher addressed Harold.
(c) Here ‘ain’t’ stands for ‘is not’. It also stands for ‘am not’ and ‘are not’.