By:- Alexander Baron

A MAN WHO KNEW

TOO MUCH

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The story is about a man named private quelch who likes to show off his knowledge.narrator and his friends also gave him nickname 'professor' due his lanky body and bespecaled looks.Although private quelch meant to acquire a stripe and to get comision.He works hard for his ambition but due to his habbit of interupting senoirs and showing off his knowledge he was nominated for permanent cookhouse duties by Corporal Turnbull.Corporal turnbull was a young and smart soldier who had returned from dunkirk,he was a man not to be triffled with.narrator and his fellow soldiers told each other that they could hammer nails into him without him noticing it.There are also many incidents in the story, when private quelch outshone his fellow soldiers(including narrator) on aircraft recognition,when professor interupted the sergeant and he asking questions to professor in hope of revenge.The story ends with a light note with private quelch lecturing his fellow soldiers on how to cut potato without its vitamin values being wasted.

SUMMARY

GLOSSARY

Sincere – honest Dedicated – devoted to something Strange – unusual private – an ordinary

SCAFFOLDING QUESTIONS

Where did the author meet Private Quelch? What was their first lesson in musketry? What question might the sergeant asked Private Quelch? How did others try to hit back at Private Quelch?

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