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?
“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?
Solution and Explanation
(i) The term "They" denotes students from centuries ago.
(ii) In the context of 2157, "Regular" signifies what is typical, where a regular teacher refers to the mechanical teacher.
(iii) The mechanical teacher is being juxtaposed with human teachers from earlier periods.
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