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Answer the following with reference to the story.
“Sure 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?

Updated On: Jan 19, 2026
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Reference to the Story 

(i) Who does ‘they’ refer to?
‘They’ refers to the children in the old kind of school that Tommy describes.

(ii) What does ‘regular’ mean here?
‘Regular’ here means a mechanical or programmed teacher like Margie and Tommy have, not a human teacher.

(iii) What is it contrasted with?
It is contrasted with the mechanical teachers of Margie and Tommy, which are machines that teach children at home instead of a human teacher in a classroom.

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(i) how many cross - streets can be referred to as (4, 3). 

(ii) how many cross - streets can be referred to as (3, 4).

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