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C. Answer these questions.

1. What was the tailor of Gloucester stitching? Why?

2. Where did the brown mice move around at night?

3. Why was Simpkin upset?

4. Who was grateful to the tailor?

5. Why was the tailor unable to complete his work? Who completed it?
6. Describe the coat and waistcoat the mice stitched for the Mayor.

Think and Answer • Critical Thinking

A. Which actions of the tailor show that he was a kind man? How did he benefit from his
act of kindness? Explain. Do you think that an act of kindness always pays?

Grammar Spot • Personal and possessive pronouns

Personal and Possessive Pronouns

Read the given sentences.

1. Long ago, an old tailor lived in Gloucester. He was very poor.

2. Simpkin caught many mice. They were kept in teacups and saucers.

The highlighted words (‘He’ and ‘They’) in the sentences are personal
pronouns. They are used in place of nouns (‘tailor’ and ‘mice’).

A personal pronoun is a word that takes the place of the name of the speaker, the person
spoken to or about whom the speaker is speaking.

Look at this table of pronouns.

Gender
Person Singular/Plural
(Masculine/Feminine/Common)

First Person (The speaker) I, we Common
Second Person You Common
(The person spoken to)
‘He’ for masculine
Third Person He, she, it, they ‘She’ for feminine
(The noun spoken about)
‘It’, ‘they’ for common

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