Read the passages given below and answer the questions that follow each of them : You never saw such a commotion up and down a house in all your life, as when my Uncle Podger undertook to do a job. A picture would have come home from the frame-maker's, and be standing in the dining room, waiting to be put up ; and Aunt Podger would ask what was to be done with it, and Uncle Podger would say : "Oh, you leave that to me. Don't you, any of you, worry yourselves about that. I'll do all that." And then he would take o ff his coat, and begin. He would send the girl out for sixpenny worth of... Show more Read the passages given below and answer the questions that follow each of them : You never saw such a commotion up and down a house in all your life, as when my Uncle Podger undertook to do a job. A picture would have come home from the frame-maker's, and be standing in the dining room, waiting to be put up ; and Aunt Podger would ask what was to be done with it, and Uncle Podger would say : "Oh, you leave that to me. Don't you, any of you, worry yourselves about that. I'll do all that." And then he would take o ff his coat, and begin. He would send the girl out for sixpenny worth of nails, and then one of the boys after her to tell her what size to get ; and from that, he would gradually get the whole house involved. "Now you go and get me my hammer, Will," he would shout; "and bring me the rule, Tom ; and I shall want the stepladder, and I had better have a kitchen chair, too ; and Jim ! you run round to Mr Goggles, and tell him, "Pa's Kind regards and hopes his leg's better ; and will he lend him his spirit-level ?" And don't you go, Maria, because I shall want somebody to hold the light; and when the girl comes back she must go out again for a bit of picture cord ; and Tom !—where's Tom ?—Tom, you come here; and hand me up the picture." (234 words) Show less
Read the passages given below and answer the questions that follow each of them :
You never saw such a commotion up and down a house in all your life, as when my Uncle Podger undertook to do a job. A picture would have come home from the frame-maker's, and be standing in the dining room, waiting to be put up ; and Aunt Podger would ask what was to be done with it, and Uncle Podger would say : "Oh, you leave that to me. Don't you, any of you, worry yourselves about that. I'll do all that." And then he would take o ff his coat, and begin. He would send the girl out for sixpenny worth of nails, and then one of the boys after her to tell her what size to get ; and from that, he would gradually get the whole house involved. "Now you go and get me my hammer, Will," he would shout; "and bring me the rule, Tom ; and I shall want the stepladder, and I had better have a kitchen chair, too ; and Jim ! you run round to Mr Goggles, and tell him, "Pa's Kind regards and hopes his leg's better ; and will he lend him his spirit-level ?" And don't you go, Maria, because I shall want somebody to hold the light; and when the girl comes back she must go out again for a bit of picture cord ; and Tom !—where's Tom ?—Tom, you come here; and hand me up the picture." (234 words)
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