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Question 2:Answer the following with reference to the story.

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Answer the following with reference to the story.
  • AI wouldn't throw it away. (i) Who says these words? (ii) What does ˜it' refer to? (iii) What is it being compared with by the speaker?
  • BSure they had a teacher, but it wasn't a regular teacher. It was a man. (i) Who does ˜they' refer to? (ii) What does ˜regular' mean here? (iii) What is it contrasted with?
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(i) Tommy says these words.
(ii) ˜It' refers to the television screen.
(iii) Tommy is comparing the television screen with printed books of the earlier times.
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(i) The word ˜they' refers to the students who studied in the old kind of schools, centuries before the time the story is set in.
(ii) Here, the term ˜regular' refers to the mechanical teachers that Tommy and Margie has.
(iii) The mechanical teacher is contrasted with the teacher of the earlier times, who was a man.