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?

(i) ’They’ refers to the students who studied in the old kind of schools centuries before the time this story is set in.

(ii) ‘Regular’ refers to the mechanical teachers that Tommy and Margie had.

(iii) The mechanical teacher is contrasted with the teacher of the earlier times, who was a human being.