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The Man Who Knew Too Much
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29/01/2021 5:00 pm
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Read the given extracts and answer the questions that follow:
I met Private Quelch at the training depot. A man is liable in his first week of army life-together with his uniform, rifle and equipment-a nickname.
(a) What was the nickname of Private Quelch?
(b) Why was he called ‘Professor’?
(c) Give the meaning of the word ‘liable’.
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29/01/2021 5:01 pm
(a) The nickname of Private Quelch was ‘Professor’.
(b) He was called Professor because of his habit of sermonizing to one and all.
(c) ‘likely to have/get’.