The problem in one line
They cannot shout for help.
A shout tells the thief he has been seen, and he is inside the room with them. Help is outside. That gap is the whole story.
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Rama to the Rescue · Class 6 English · Poorvi
English 3 topics 87 leveled MCQs 45 flashcards 7 games Free
Shared by a Veda teacher · Generated with Veda AI · Oct 2026
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A reason for the noise
So they shout anyway.
The plan is not to stay quiet. It is to give the shout an innocent reason, so the same sound reaches the street without alarming the man in the corner.
Rama is the kotwal
The name is the message.
They pretend to be choosing a name for a child they might have. The name they choose happens to belong to the village officer whose job is exactly this.
What an apostrophe is doing
The mark fills the hole.
I am loses its a and becomes I'm. It is loses an i and becomes it's. The apostrophe sits exactly where the missing letters were, every time.
How to spell any contraction
Take the letters out first.
Write the two words. Cross out what disappears. Put the mark in the gap. Do not becomes don't, and the rule never changes.
Where contractions belong
A spoken habit.
People use them constantly in speech and less in careful writing. Neither is wrong. The form you pick tells a reader how formal you are being.
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What you'll study, topic by topic
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The Story: Rama to the Rescue
A thief digs into a house at night. The couple inside cannot shout for help, so they invent a conversation that lets them shout anyway.
- A man and his wife are settling down for the night in a village when she hears somebody trying to get in.
- The noise stops, which tells them the thief is already inside, so the danger is in the room with them.
- Calling for help directly is impossible. A shout would tell the thief they had seen him, with him standing a few feet away.
~30 min · full explanation, examples & memory tricks in the app
2
Words at Work: Contractions, Happening-Now Verbs and Adverbs
What the apostrophe in I'm is standing in for, how English says that something is going on right now, and the words that tell you how an action was done.
- A contraction squeezes two words into one, and the apostrophe stands exactly where the missing letters used to be.
- It is becomes it's, they are becomes they're, and I would becomes I'd. In each case the apostrophe marks the gap.
- Contractions belong to speech. In careful writing the full form is usually the better choice.
~30 min · full explanation, examples & memory tricks in the app
3
Speak, Listen and Write about Keeping Safe
Telling somebody what happened to you, in an order they can follow, and offering an idea without telling anybody what to do.
- A recount is a retelling of something that really happened to you, and it usually answers five questions.
- When and where set the scene, what carries the events, how explains the way they went, and why gives the reason.
- A listener who is missing when or where spends the whole account trying to place it instead of following it.
~30 min · full explanation, examples & memory tricks in the app
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87 questions laddered from warm-up to topper-level, each with an explanation. A taste:
What first tells the wife that something is wrong?
Beginner
A A light moving outside the window
B A scraping noise of somebody getting in
C The family dog barking in the yard
D A neighbour calling out to them
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A scraping noise of somebody getting in
She hears it before her husband does and tells him to listen.
Why is it bad news when the digging noise stops?
Intermediate
A It means the thief has given up and left
B It means the neighbours have frightened him off
C It means he has finished and is now inside
D It means he has fallen asleep by the wall
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It means he has finished and is now inside
While there was noise he was still outside. Silence means he is through.
Why can the couple not simply shout for help?
Intermediate
A The village is too far away to hear them
B They have both lost their voices from shouting
C Shouting is forbidden in the village at night
D The thief would know at once that he had been seen
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The thief would know at once that he had been seen
He is in the room with them, and help is not.
The couple pretend to be choosing a name for their ____.
Beginner
A child
B house
C dog
D cow
Show answer & explanation
child
A harmless subject that lets a name be said out loud again and again.
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