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You folk are queer. You think about the past all the time. We always think about the future. (a) What do the words “You” and “We” stand here for? (b) Why does the speaker say that Frenchmen are ‘queer’?
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09/02/2021 6:37 pm
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Read the given extracts and answer the questions that follow:
You folk are queer. You think about the past all the time. We always think about the future.
(a) What do the words “You” and “We” stand here for?
(b) Why does the speaker say that Frenchmen are ‘queer’?
(c) How do the speaker and her countrymen differ from Frenchmen?
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09/02/2021 6:38 pm

(a) Here the word ‘You’ stands for Frenchmen and ‘We’ stands for the Americans.
(b) The French people are really funny and strange as they always think about the past unlike the Americans.
(c) The speaker and her countrymen always think about the future while Frenchmen think about the past all the time.
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