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प्रश्न
The poet draws conclusions about the family without having met them. He does this in lines such as :
Something went wrong, says the empty house
in the weed-choked yard ...
This is a style of English that is very suitable for a poem. But in ordinary speech or writing we use expressions such as :
|
So it is Therefore it is |
probable likely possible |
that |
| It |
seems appears |
that....... | because..... |
| This suggests that ... |
For example, we could say :
• There are large shoes in the farmhouse. So it is likely that the farmer was a big man.
• It seems that they had a child, because there is a sandbox made from a tractor tyre.
• The kitchen shelves were covered with oil cloth. This suggests that a woman lived in the farmhouse.
Make other sentences like this, using ideas from the poem.
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उत्तर
In the first floor room there was a Bible , which suggests that the man was a god fearing one .
The farm was cluttered with boulders and the barn was ill maintained, so it can be assumed that the man did not have a knack for farming.
They were using preserved food which suggests they could not afford fresh food and were poor.
The narrow country road leading up to the farmhouse suggests that it was a lonely farmhouse.
Some jars were still sealed and toys were strewn all over. This suggests that something awfully wrong happened there.
