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Mind you, if someone had bought it on the very day I placed it for sale, then I might have felt sorry because I would have wondered if I hadn’t been a fool to sell at all. (a) How long ago had the speaker put up her Villa for sale?
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09/02/2021 6:42 pm
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Read the extract given below and answer the questions/complete the sentences that follow:
Mind you, if someone had bought it on the very day I placed it for sale, then I might have felt sorry because I would have wondered if I hadn’t been a fool to sell at all.
(a) How long ago had the speaker put up her Villa for sale?
(b) Why would she have considered herself a fool if she had managed to sell it on the day she put up the notice?
(c) In what way is her remark ironic?
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09/02/2021 6:43 pm

(a) The speaker had put up her villa for sale more than a month ago.
(b) Because then she would have realized the villa’s true Worth too late.
(c) She is fooled by Gaston and loses a lot of money.
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