(a) Who is speaking and to whom? (b) Explain : “Counting your chickens again before they’re hatched, are you?”

Question

Read the extracts given below and answer the questions that follow:

‘Counting your chickens again before they’re hatched, are you? No wonder you could never make a go of it.

Questions 

(a) Who is speaking and to whom? 

(b) Explain : “Counting your chickens again before they’re hatched, are you?” 

(c) Find the opposite of ‘discounting’ in the passage.

Answer 1

(a) Patol Babu’s wife is talking to her husband. 

(b) She says that Patol Babu was only counting his chickens before their birth. It means that he was calculating the result prematurely. 

(c) counting