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c. a young boy paused beside the woman to ...............................
rest ride a horse offer her help

d. The old woman was also a ............................ of somebody.
mother housemaid teacher

e. The woman at home ............................... the boy she was helped by.
cursed prayed for wrote a letter to

2.4. Answer the following questions.

a. What was the old woman doing in the street?

b. Why did you think, the school boys not pay any attention to the
woman?
c. Who came at last to help the woman?

d. Where did the young boy go after helping the woman?

e. What did the young boy say to his friends?
f. What does the boy expect at the end of the poem?

3 Grammar Time

3.1. Read the following sentences and note how have, make and get
are used.

a. I have my parents pay my school fees.
b. I had John fix the car.

c. The boss made the clerks work the extra hours.
d. Dhiren made the salesman show him a variety of pants.

e. Don’t get the children to do that heavy work.
f. I got an architect to design my dream house.

g. She had her hair cut in a parlour.
h. Moti got his field ploughed.

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