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Rishita Kapur from Delhi Public School East of Kailash , New Delhi
Subject :IEO    Class : Class 5

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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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Prabhsimrat Singh Gill from Oakridge international school , Mohali
Subject :IEO    Class : Class 6

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arshi.jain4004@gmail.com from ,
Class : Class 1

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Saransh Agrawal from Meridian School, Hyderabad
Class : Class 9

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Pranay from Vibgyor High Horamavu, Bangalore
Class : Class 6
yes it is correct

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Mahim Ahsan from Matrikiran High School, Gurgaon
Class : Class 6
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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Ananya Sarah Jasmin from KV DRDO, Bangalore
Class : Class 5

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Shivani Shivu Singh from Pawar Public School Chandivili , Mumbai
Class : Class 7

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Samarveer from vivek high school, Chandigarh
Subject :IEO    Class : Class 3

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Aahana Agarwal from NPS Koramangala, Bengaluru
Subject :IEO    Class : Class 4

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Advika Narkar from The Shishukunj International School, Jhalaria Campus, Indore
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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Diya Jasmina from Samsidh MLZS, Bengaluru
Class : Class 4
the answer could be both ; Mandola, Chandigarh.

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Sanaya Singh from Hiranandani Foundation, Mumbai
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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Yashraj Namdev Deshmukh from Sahyadri English School, Loha, Nanded
Class : Class 7
It is Chandigarh as it is from Chandigarh and not Mandola.

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Navvi Maya KPR from Sacred Heart Matriculation Higher Secondary School, Chennai
Class : Class 8
It could be mandola or chandigarh

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Shweta Garg from Vibgyor high, Vadodara
Class : Class 8
the answer can be both mandola chandigarh

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Prapti Kumar from GD Birla Center For Education, Kolkata
Class : Class 9
Chandigarh

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Ashlesha Goel from The Suncity School 37d, Gurgaon
Class : Class 5
It could be C or B

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Shaswata Das from Nava Nalanda High School, Kolkata
Subject :IEO    Class : Class 5

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ROSHNI GHOSH from RYAN INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL, BANGALORE
Subject :IEO    Class : Class 8

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mehar singh from jayshree periwal high school, Jaipur
Class : Class 8
C. everybody into the court Here, the correct sentence would be ANYBODY in the court

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Pragun goel from Venkateshwar International School, Delhi
Subject :IEO    Class : Class 5

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CHIRAG KHORIA from EVERGREEN PUBLIC SCHOOL, MAYNAGURI
Class : Class 5
Is this a sentence or what?SOF Please

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Aarav Mittal from MMIS, Mullana, Ambala
Class : Class 5

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Alina Chattopadhyay from Tagore International School, Vasant Vihar, New Delhi, South Delhi
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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Alina Chattopadhyay from Tagore International School, Vasant Vihar, New Delhi, South Delhi
Class : Class 6
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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Shaswata Das from Nava Nalanda High School, Kolkata
Class : Class 5
Wrong question. This is not a sentence

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Prisha Shah from Euroschool Airoli, Mumbai
Class : Class 6
What kind of sentence is this?

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Aajani Datta from The Samhita Academy, Bangalore
Subject :IEO    Class : Class 4

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Aajani Datta from The Samhita Academy, Bangalore
Subject :IEO    Class : Class 4

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Dhruv Daga from Greenwood High International School, Banglore
Class : Class 4
wdym

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Aajani Datta from The Samhita Academy, Bangalore
Class : Class 5

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Laranya Lalchandani from Delhi Public School Sec-45, Gurgaon
Class : Class 7
Bitan, you are right..

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Hamsini from yagappa international school, Thanjavur
Class : Class 5
WELL MANNERED

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Mishka Kankaria from SVKM J V Parekh International School, Mumbai
Class : Class 4
check google please if you want to recheckeven i got it wrong at first

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Bhavikaa kedia from Anand Niketan Satellite, Ahmedabad
Class : Class 5
It should be D obnoxious as inoffensive antonym is offensive, and obnoxious and offensive are synonyms

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Bitan Chakraborty from Adamas international school, Kolkata
Class : Class 10
well-mannered

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Mishka Kankaria from SVKM J V Parekh International School, Mumbai
Class : Class 4
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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Vivaan Watts from Modern Delhi Public school, Faridabad
Class : Class 6

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Samyaraj Chowdhury from DPS Ruby Park, Kolkata, Kolkata
Subject :IEO    Class : Class 4

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Naavya Kapoor from St Gregorios High school , Mumbai
Class : Class 6
The answer is B for sure

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Jayshil Sheth from Nirma Vidhyavihar , Ahmedabad
Class : Class 4

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Aajani Datta from The Samhita Academy, Bangalore
Class : Class 5
The answer is B

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Inaabat Banday from Foundation World School, Srinagar
Class : Class 4
Please explain why B is wrong

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Shashwat from Lotus Valley International School, Gurgaon
Class : Class 4
The correct answer is B

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