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You think your pa’s a commercial. He ain’t. He’s a fighting man, doing his eight stone four ringside, and known to all as Young Porky’. (a) Who is the speaker? (b) What did the boy, Harold, believe to be his father’s job? (c) What do you mean by ‘...

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Read the extracts given below and answer the questions that follow:

You think your pa’s a commercial. He ain’t. He’s a fighting man, doing his eight stone four ringside, and known to all as Young Porky’.

(a) Who is the speaker?

(b) What did the boy, Harold, believe to be his father’s job?

(c) What do you mean by ‘ain’t’ here?

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(a) Bill Fisher, the boxing trainer, is the speaker.

(b) The boy, Harold, believed that his father was a touring representative of a firm.

(c) ‘is not’.

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