Question

There is a repetition of sentences with ‘some’ in the passage. Read the passage again and write down the sentences and the function of ‘some’ in each one of them. Do you find any other repetitions in the passage? If yes, mention it. .

Answer 1

i) Some of them are badly corroded, their slimy contents of various colours — grey, dark green, bright orange, etc. – leaking out, down, onto the baked African earth and into the stream. 

ii) Some have fallen down and rolled – or been rolled by playful children – into the bush. 

iii) Some are smoking in the midday heat.

iv) Some are swelling, as if their contents are bursting to get out. 

v) Some have already burst.