The whole plot in one line
Two women are coming to tea.
A mother wants a visit to go well, and her talkative daughter asks to be allowed to stay in the room.
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Say the Right Thing · Class 7 English · Poorvi
English 4 topics 140 leveled MCQs 68 flashcards 5 games Free
Shared by a Veda teacher · Generated with Veda AI · Oct 2026
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Mrs Lee is his sister
A detail that is really the engine.
Mr Harding’s sister is staying with the family. Remember it: almost everybody Mary criticises turns out to be her relative.
It opens on a coat
No speech about manners.
Put it away; this room is not the place for it. Four lines later we have met both mother and daughter.
The shape of the scene
Seven mistakes, one machine.
Topic, criticism, connection, apology, silence. Every blunder runs those five steps and only the criticism changes.
Blunder one
She admires children who do not exist.
Mrs Harding has none. Mary insists she has seen a little boy and a little girl, which doubles the damage.
Blunder two
Bankers cannot think, she says.
Mrs Lee answers that her brother is a banker who commutes to London and reads the newspapers on the train.
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What you'll study, topic by topic
1
Scene I: Good Advice, Badly Heard
A mother spends a whole scene teaching her daughter how to behave in front of guests. The advice is sensible and Mary agrees to all of it. This topic looks at what she is told, what she actually takes in, and why a reade…
- The play has four characters: Mary, her mother Mrs Shaw, their guest Mrs Harding, and Mrs Harding’s sister-in-law Mrs Lee.
- Mrs Shaw wants to be invited to the Hardings’ house, so the visit matters to her more than it does to Mary.
- Mary insists she can talk well. Her mother agrees she talks a great deal, which is not the same compliment.
~32 min · full explanation, examples & memory tricks in the app
2
Scene II: Seven Blunders, One Shape
Mary stays for the visit and insults almost everybody in it, always by accident. The remarkable thing is that all seven mistakes have the same five steps. This topic takes the shape apart, then shows the last line using…
- Mary praises children Mrs Harding does not have, and then argues with her about it, which makes the first blunder worse.
- She mocks a banker who commutes and reads newspapers. Mrs Lee’s brother is exactly such a banker.
- She laughs at a blue dress worn with a red coat. Mrs Harding owns both and wears them together.
~34 min · full explanation, examples & memory tricks in the app
3
Endings: Suffixes, and has been -ing
English does much of its work at the end of a word. A suffix can turn a noun into an adjective or an adjective into an adverb. And one ending, with two helpers in front of it, says that something began earlier and is sti…
- A suffix is an ending added to a root word. Humour plus -ous gives humorous, and hilarious plus -ly gives hilariously.
- The suffix usually changes the word’s job: -ly makes an adverb, -ous makes an adjective, -ance makes a noun.
- Some suffixes carry a meaning instead: -logy means a study of something, and -ward gives a direction.
~34 min · full explanation, examples & memory tricks in the app
4
Choosing the Word, and the Kind of Sentence
Seven pairs of words look interchangeable and are not. Four kinds of sentence each earn their own punctuation. And one sentence can mean five things depending on which word the voice leans on. All three are choices made…
- Say attends to the message and needs no listener. Tell attends to the receiver and always needs one.
- So you say something, and you tell somebody something. Tell without a person after it is usually wrong.
- Fetch means to go somewhere, get a thing and bring it back. Bring means to carry it with you as you come.
~34 min · full explanation, examples & memory tricks in the app
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140 questions laddered from warm-up to topper-level, each with an explanation. A taste:
The play is set in one drawing room and involves a mother, her daughter and two visitors. The number of characters who appear is
Beginner
A three
B four
C five
D two
Show answer & explanation
four
Mary, Mrs Shaw, Mrs Harding and Mrs Lee.
Mrs Lee comes to the house with Mrs Harding rather than on her own account, and the play says how they are connected. Mrs Lee is related to the Hardings as
Beginner
A Mr Harding’s sister
B Mrs Harding’s mother
C Mrs Harding’s cousin
D Mr Harding’s daughter
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Mr Harding’s sister
She has been staying with the family for a while.
Before any guest has arrived, the play begins with a conversation between mother and daughter about how to behave. The play opens with
Beginner
A a knock at the front door
B the arrival of the two expected guests
C an instruction to put a coat away
D a long speech about good manners
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an instruction to put a coat away
Four lines in, we have met both mother and daughter.
Why does Mrs Shaw want to know Mrs Harding better?
Intermediate
A She wants Mary to be given a job there
B She wants to buy the house in Lanfield
C She wants to borrow money from the family
D She wants more friends in a quiet place
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She wants more friends in a quiet place
She says so plainly: there is not much to do in Lanfield.
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