Question

Answer the following with reference to the story.
“ Sure, they had a teacher, but it wasn’t a regular teacher. It was a man.”

1. Who does ‘they’ refer to?
2. What does ‘regular’ mean here?
3. What is it contrasted with?

Answer 1

1. They’ refers to the students of the old kind of schools.
   
2. Here, 'regular' refers to the mechanical teachers.
   
3. It is contrasted with the human teachers of old times.