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Question
Read the lines and answer the questions given below.
They may sound your praise and call you great,
They may single you out for fame,
But you must work with your running mate
Or you’ll never win the game;
- Whom does ‘they’ refer to?
- Which line talks about team spirit?
- Pick out the rhyming words from the given lines.
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Solution
- ‘They’refers to the people around you.
- The 3rd line ‘But you must work with your running mate’ talks about the team spirit.
- The rhyming words are ‘great – mate ; fame – game’.
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