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And now, if you will set us to our task, We will serve you four and twenty hours a day! Who does the pronoun ‘you’ refer to here? - English

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And now, if you will set us to our task,
We will serve you four and twenty hours a day!

Who does the pronoun ‘you’ refer to here?

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The pronoun ‘you’ refer to the people.

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पाठ 5.2: The Secret of the Machines - Exercise [पृष्ठ १५०]

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सामाचीर कलवी English Class 10 SSLC TN Board
पाठ 5.2 The Secret of the Machines
Exercise | Q A. 10. a. | पृष्ठ १५०

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Based on your understanding of the poem, read the following line and answer the question given below.

‘‘ Not I!
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Based on the understanding of the poem, read the following line and answer the question given below.

Beneath all uniforms, a single body breathes
Like ours: the land our brothers walk upon.
Is earth like this, in which we all shall lie.

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  3. Where are we all going to lie finally?

Based on the understanding of the poem, read the following lines and answer the questions given below.

Their hands are ours, and in their lines, we read
A labour not different from our own.

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