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Why does Maddie stand by and not do anything? How is she different from Peggy? (Was Peggy’s friendship important to Maddie? Why? Which lines in the text tell you this?)

Maddie stands by and does not do anything because she did not have the courage to speak against Peggy as she was her best friend. Maddie is different from Peggy because she did not make fun of Wanda. Moreover, Peggy’s friendship was important to Maddie because she was the best-liked girl in the whole class and she was afraid to be the next target of everyone’s fun.


The line, “She was Peggy’s best friend, and Peggy was the best-liked girl in the whole room. Peggy could not possibly do anything that was really wrong, she thought.” shows that their friendship was important to Maddie.


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look at these sentences

(a) She sat in the corner of the room where the rough boys who did not make good marks sat, the corner of the room where there was most scuffling of feet…


(b) The time when they thought about Wanda was outside the school hours….These clauses help us to identify a set of boys, a place, and a time. They are answers to the questions ‘What kind of rough boys?’ ‘Which corner did she sit in’? And ‘What particular time outside of school hours?’ They are ‘defining’ or ‘restrictive’ relative clauses. (Compare them with the nondefining relative clauses discussed in Unit-1)


Combine the following to make sentences like those above.


1. This is the bus (What kind of bus?) It goes to Agra. (Use which or that)


2. I would like to buy (a) shirt (which shirt?). (The) shirt is in the shop window. (use which or that)


3. You must break your fast at a particular time. (when?). You see the moon in the sky. (use when)


4. Find a word (what kind of word). It begins with the letter Z. (use which or that)


5. Now find a person (what kind of person?). His or her name begins with letter Z. (use whose).


6. Then go to a place (What place?). There are no people whose name begins with Z in that place. (use where)