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"When I leave," Sophie said, coming home from school, "I m going to have a boutique." Jansie, linking arms with her along the street; looked doubtful.

"Takes money, Soaf, something like that." "I'll find it," Sophie said, staring far down the street. "Take you a long time to save that much." "Well I'll be a manager then–yes, of course– to begin with. Till I've got enough. But anyway, I know just how it's all going to look."

"They wouldn't make you manager straight off, Soaf." "I'll be like Mary Quant," Sophie said. "I'll have the most amazing shop this city's ever seen." Jansie, knowing they were both earmarked for the biscuit factory, became melancholy. She wished Sophie wouldn't say these things

When they reached Sophie's street Jansie said, "It's only a few months away now, Soaf, you really should be sensible. They don't pay well for shop work, you know that, your dad would never allow it." "Or an actress. Now there's real money in that. Yes, and I could maybe have the boutique on the side. Actresses don't work full time, do they? Anyway, that or a fashion designer, you know – something a bit sophisticated."

And she turned in through the open street door leaving Jansie standing in the rain. "If ever I come into money I'll buy a boutique." "Huh - if you ever come into money..... if you ever come into money you'll buy us a blessed decent house to live in, thank you very much." Sophie's father was scooping shepherd's pie into his mouth as hard as he could go, his plump face still grimy and sweat-marked from the day.

"She thinks money grows on trees, don't she, Dad?' said little Derek, hanging on the back of his father's chair. Their mother sighed. Sophie watched her back stooped over the sink and wondered at the delicate bow which fastened her apron strings. The delicateseeming bow and the crooked back. The evening had already blacked in the windows and the small room was steamy from the stove and cluttered with the heavy-breathing man in his vest at the table and the dirty washing piled up in the corner. Sophie felt a tightening in her throat. She went to look for her brother Geoff.

He was kneeling on the floor in the next room tinkering with a part of his motorcycle over some newspaper spread on the carpet. He was three years out of school, an apprentice mechanic, travelling to his work each day to the far side of the city. He was almost grown up now, and she suspected areas of his life about which she knew nothing, about which he never spoke. He said little at all, ever, voluntarily. Words had to be prized out of him like stones out of the ground. And she was jealous of his silence. When he wasn't speaking it was as though he was away somewhere, out there in the world in those places she had never been.

"If you come into money, you'll buy us a blessed decent house to live in..." What does this tell us about Sophie and her family?

AThey were always dissatisfied.
BThere was scarcity of money in the family, and it upset them.
CThe family was greedy and wanted a life of comfort.
DSophie hadn't bought them a better house in the first place.


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Subject :IEO    Class : Class 6

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Class : Class 5

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It will be (C),because at the end of the sentence it is written "at that time" , so the tense is past continuous. The sentence is "A cardigan ________ by the old lady at that time. " Answer : "A cardigan was being knitted by the old lady at that time "

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Class : Class 6
yes it is correct

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Subject :IEO    Class : Class 3

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Subject :IEO    Class : Class 4

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Class : Class 5
It could be C or B

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Class : Class 9
Chandigarh

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Class : Class 7
It is Chandigarh as it is from Chandigarh and not Mandola.

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Class : Class 8
the answer can be both mandola chandigarh

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Class : Class 8
It could be mandola or chandigarh

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Class : Class 8
Yes the answer can be both; Mandola and Chandigarh. It should be specified too where the place is. I agree with Shweta and Jibran. Pls. explain.

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Class : Class 2
pretty sure it is Mandola. How can it show Chandigarh, the letter is supposed to reach Mandola and not Chandigarh.

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Class : Class 4
the answer could be both ; Mandola, Chandigarh.

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Subject :IEO    Class : Class 8

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C. everybody into the court Here, the correct sentence would be ANYBODY in the court

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Subject :IEO    Class : Class 5

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Bro, these are correct sentences. They are not common, so most people dont know about them. If you read a lot of books, this sentence will make sense. These are uncommon yet proper sentences.

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Class : Class 6
It's a proper sentence. I agree this type of sentences aren't cmmon, but they are proper. The answer is B.

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Class : Class 6
What kind of sentence is this?

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Class : Class 5
Wrong question. This is not a sentence

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Class : Class 5
Is this a sentence or what?SOF Please

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WELL MANNERED

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option d as the antonym of inoffensive is offensive and offensive and obnoxious are synonyms, making obnoxious an antonym of inoffensive so correct answer is option D

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wdym

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It should be D obnoxious as inoffensive antonym is offensive, and obnoxious and offensive are synonyms

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Class : Class 7
Bitan, you are right..

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well-mannered

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check google please if you want to recheckeven i got it wrong at first

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Please explain why B is wrong

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Class : Class 4
The correct answer is B

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Class : Class 6
The answer is B for sure

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Class : Class 5
The answer is B

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