Grammar Accounts: Multan - Lahore-Islamabad
Grammar Accounts: Multan - Lahore-Islamabad
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MULTAN -LAHORE- ISLAMABAD
MCAT ENGLISH
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MCAT/ CA/ CSS
(Multan, Lahore, Islamabad)
Pakistan
Professor Salman ul Waheed
Ph.D. Scholar English Linguistics
Pakistan’s Leading MDCAT English Expert
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MULTAN -LAHORE- ISLAMABAD
MCAT SPECIFIC
GOODBYE MR. CHIPS
(IMPORTANT PLACES TO REMEMBER)
BY
PROF. SALMAN UL WAHEED
CHAPTER 1
When you are getting on in years, you get very sleepy at times, and the hours seem to pass like
lazy cattle moving across a landscape.
(Page 1, Para 1, Line 1)
When you are getting on in years it is nice to sit by the fire and drink a cup of tea and listen to the
school bell.
(Page 1, Para 2, Line 1)
Rarely did he read more than a page of it before sleep came swiftly and peacefully, more like a
mystic intensifying of perception than any changeful entrance into another world.
(Page 1, Para 2, Line 5)
You’re past the age when people get these horrible diseases.
(Page 1, Para 3, Line 4)
Take up a firm attitude from the beginning, that’s the secret of it.
(Page 2, Para 2, Line 2)
Big Hall full of lusty barbarians ready to pounce on him as their legitimate prey.
(Page 2, Para 3, Line 2)
And as Chips sat by his fire with autumn gales rattling the windows, the waves of humour and
sadness swept over him very often until tears fell, so that when Mrs. Wickett came in with his cup
of tea she did not know whether he had been laughing or crying.
(Page 3, Para 3, Line 2)
CHAPTER 2
A group of eighteenth century building centred upon a quadrangle, and there were acres of
playing fields beyond.
(Page 4, Para 1, Line 2)
Later, after the Napoleonic Wars and until mid-Victorian days, the school declined again, both in
numbers and repute.
(Page 4, Para 1, Line 10)
Mostly, however, it turned out merchants, manufacturers, and professional men, with a good
sprinkling of country squires and parsons.
(Page 4, Para 1, Line 17)
But if it had not been this sort of school it would probably not have taken Chips.
(Page 4, Para 1, Line 17)
About 1880, after he had been at Brookfield a decade, he began to recognize that the odds were
heavily against his being able to better himself by moving elsewhere.
(Page 4, last line)
The court of appeal in all matters affecting Broomfield history and traditions.
(Page 5, Para 1, Line 6)
Three cheers, indeed; but there was more to come, an unguessed epilogue, an encore played to a
tragic audience.
(Page 5, Last Line)
CHAPTER 3
It was a small but very comfortable and sunny room that Mrs. Wickett let to him.
(Page 6, Line 1)
The house itself was ugly and pretentious; but that didn't matter; it was convenient, that was the
main thing.
(Page 6, para 1, Line 2)
If the weather were mild enough, to stroll across to the plating-fields in an afternoon and watch
the games.
(Page 6, para 1, Line 3)
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He liked to smile and exchange a few words with the boys when they touched their caps to him.
(Page 6, para 1, Line 5)
His guests found it fun to watch him make tea -- mixing careful spoonfuls from different caddies.
And he would ask the new boys where they lived, and if they had family connections at Brookfield.
He kept watch to see that their plates were never empty,
(Page 6, para 1, Line 11)
His pension was adequate, and there was a little money saved up besides.
(Page 7, para 1, Line 1)
Which was oddly incorrect; because Chips was not a bachelor at all.
(Page 7, Last para, Line 1)
CHAPTER 4
As it turned out, she was not in difficulties at all, but was merely signalling to a friend farther
down the mountain.
(Page 8, Line 15)
There was a fellow named Bernard Shaw who had the strangest and most reprehensible opinions.
(Page 8, 7th last Line)
He had not, therefore, expected to find a woman on Great Gable; but having encountered one
who seemed to need masculine help.
(Page 8, last Line)
And as she considered herself responsible for Chips’s accident, she used to bicycle along the side
of the lake to the house in which the quiet, middle-aged, serious looking man lay resting.
(Page 9, Para 2, Line 8)
She was a governess out of a job, with a little money saved up.
(Page 9, Para 2, Line 21)
Yet here he was, claiming her interest and attention far more than youths of her own age.
(Page 10, Line 1)
CHAPTER 5
When Chips, dreaming through the hours at Mrs. Wickett's, recollected those days, he used to
look down at his feet and wonder which one of it was that had performed so signal a service.
(Page 11, Para 1st, line 1)
He could re-smell the washed air after heavy rain, and re-follow the ribbon of the pass across to
Sty Head.
(Page 11, Para 1st, line 7)
On the night before wedding, when Chips left the house to return to his hotel….
(Page 12, Para 1st, line 2nd)
CHAPTER 6
Even the wives of the masters, tempted at first to be jealous of someone so young and lovely,
could not long resist her charms.
(Page 13, Para 1, line 5)
He began to feel a greater strength; his discipline improved to a point at which it could come less
rigid.
(Page 13, Para 3, line 7)
Obedience he had secured, and honour had been granted him; but only now came love.
(Page 13, Para 3, line 11)
You can't satisfy your conscience by writing a cheque for a few guineas and keeping them at arm's
length.
(Page 14, Para 3, line 5)
Rather to her surprise he gave way and suddenly became a keen advocate of the proposal.
(Page 14, Para 4, line 1)
They then met the Head and were shown over the School and Chips saw them off at the railway
station in the evening.
(Page 14, 4th last line)
The visitors were taking away with them as fine an impression as they had left behind.
(Page 14, last line)
CHAPTER 7
Having all these hundreds of boys cooped up here is really an unnatural arrangement.
(Page 16, Para 5, line 1)
Don’t known about that, Kathie, but I do know that, for everybody’s sake, we have to be pretty
strict about this sort of thing.
(Page 16, Para 6, line 2)
And if that were so, what a crowd of emotions clung to him as to their last home before
annihilation!
(Page 17, Para 3, line 5)
“Then, Chips dear, don’t you think there ought to be some other way.”
(Page 17, Para 1, line 1)
CHAPTER 8
May I have the afternoon off? My people are coming up.
(Page 19, Para 1, Last line)
The incident gave hardly an impact upon his vastly greater preoccupations.
(Page 19, Para 5, line 4)
Not till days afterwards did he realize that it had been a piece of April foolery.
(Page 19, 2nd line line)
CHAPTER 9
He could still knock up a half-century on the cricket-field.
(Page 20, Para 1, line 8)
For with the new century there settled upon Chips a mellowness that gathered all his developing
mannerisms and his oft-repeated jokes into a single harmony.
(Page 20, Para 3, line 2)
No longer did he have those slight and occasional disciplinary troubles, or feel diffident about his
own work and worth.
(Page 20, Para 3, line 6)
He found that his pride in Brookfield reflected back, giving him cause for pride in himself and his
position.
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He held the School-list, a long sheet curling over a board and each boy, as he passed, spoke his
own name for Chips to verify and then tick off on the list.
(Page 21, Para 1, line 3)
He saw it, more than he realized, with the remembered eyes of Kathie.
(Page 21, Para 5, line 3)
It was typical of him that he did not share the general jingo bitterness against the Boers.
(Page 21, Para 6, line 6)
The Boers were engaged in a struggle that had a curious similarity to those of certain English
history Book heroes.
(Page 21, Para 5, line 10)
CHAPTER 10
Chips was not in the running with that kind of person.
(Page 23, Para 1, line 8)
Those years before the retirement in 1913 were studded with sharply remembered pictures.
(Page 23, Para 2, line 1)
Chips, who was in charge, stood a little way off, talking to a man at the gate of the cottage.
(Page 23, Para 4, line 4)
Chips thinking it over a good many times always added to himself that Kathie would have
approved, and would also have been amused.
(Page 23, Para 7, line 1)
You have put your life in his hands many a time.
(Page 23, Para 5, line 3)
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She fitted herself into the English scene with dignity and without disproportion.
(Page 24, Para 1, line 1)
He had been left a vision that grew clearer with each year…. Of an England for whom days of ease
were nearly over.
(Page 24, Para 1, line 2)
Next morning it was noised around the School that Grayson's father had sailed on the Titanic, and
that no news had yet come through, as to his fate.
(Page 24, Para 6, 10th line from bottom)
CHAPTER 11
Chips stared about him in that book-lined study, startled by the question, wondering why Ralston
should have asked it.
(Page 25, Para 4, line 1)
But I want you to know that the Governors are with you to a man.
(Page 28, Para 2, line 4)
For some time past, you haven't been pulling your weight here.
(Page 25, Para 6, line 3)
Mr. Chipping, and you must ascribe it to my forbearance that I have put up with it so long.
(Page 25, Para 6, line 7)
Modern parents are beginning to demand something more for their three years school-fees than
a few scraps of languages that nobody speaks. Besides, your boys don't learn even what they're
supposed to learn. None of them last year got through the Lower Certificate. ·
(Page 26, Para 5, line 3)
And suddenly, in a torrent of thoughts too pressing to be put into words, Chips made answer to
himself.
(Page 26, Para 6, line 1)
Ralston was narrowing them upon the single issue of a fat banking account.
(Page 27, Para 1, line 5)
All this flashed through his mind in an instant of protest and indignation, but he did not
say a word of it.
(Page 27, Para 2, line 1)
So if he starts chucking his weight about with you, tell him very politely, he can go to the devil.
(Page 28, Para 2, line 8)
CHAPTER 12
So he stayed on at Brookfield having as little to do with Ralston as
Possible.
(Page 29, Para 1, line 1)
Recognising in Chips a Brookfield institution, he courteously and wisely accepted the situation.
(Page 29, Para 1, line 7)
He felt that it would not be fair to hang on if he could not decently do his job.
(Page 29, Para 2, line 4)
He did nothing else but clean and trim and light lamps throughout the School.
(Page 29, Last Para, line 7)
CHAPTER 13
Forrester was the smallest new boy Brookfield had ever had-about four feet high above his muddy
football boots.
(Page 31, Para 3, line 1)
A hundred years ago boys from this school were fighting against the French.
(Page 31, Para 3, line 7)
They are only names to him, he doesn't see their faces as I do.
(Page 31, Para 4, line 7)
Towards the close of that catastrophic July, Chatteris talked to Chips one afternoon at Mrs.
Wickett's.
(Page 31, Para 5, line 1)
Very moving, but Chips, in the back pew under the gallery, thought.
(Page 31, Para 4th, line 6th)
Chips hadn't known anything about this; it was a shock to him, for he liked Chatteris.
(Page 32, line 1st)
Ralston filled the place up with young men, all very good, of course but now most of them have
joined up and the substitutes are pretty dreadful.
(Page 32, Para 2, line 1st)
There's nobody ever been more popular than you were, and are still.
(Page 32, Para 3, line 7)
You'd help to hold things together if there were any danger of them flying to bits.
(Page 32, Para 3, line 8)
New boy Brookfield had ever had _ about four feet high above his muddy boots.
(Page 31, Para 3rd, line 2nd)
CHAPTER 14
He put on his coat and muffler and crossed the road to the School.
(Page 33, para 1, line 2)
He felt a little like a music-hall favourite returning to the boards after a positively last appearance.
(Page 33, para 1, line 7)
They did not guess how closely he had kept in touch from across the road.
(Page 33, para 2, line 2)
There is no sublimer feeling in the world, and it was his at last.
(Page 33, para 3, line 7)
On Sundays in chapel it was he who now read out the tragic list, and sometimes it was seen and
heard that he was in tears over it.
(Page 34, Para 2, line 1)
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Those who knew him will be sorry to hear that he was killed last week, on the Western front.
(Page 34, Para 4, line 4)
From that last, honour, within his reach at last, he shrank instinctively.
(Page 33, Para 5, line 5)
So much of the world was losing it: as well keep it where it had.
(Page 34, Para 1, line 4)
CHAPTER 15
If it is fate that we are soon to be, let us be found employing ourselves in something really
appropriate.
(Page 35, Para 2, Last lines)
The whole building shook as if it were being lifted off its foundations.
(Page 35, Para 2, Last lines)
That’s really very funny indeed, Sir _ One of your very best.
(Page 36, Para 1st, line 3rd)
The kitchen staff were implored to provide as cheerful a spread as war-time rationing permitted.
(Page 36, Para 6, line 2)
There was much cheering and singing and a bread fight across the dining hall.
(Page 36, Para 6th, line 3rd)
At his own request there were no more farewells or presentations, nothing but a handshake with
his successor and the word "acting" crossed out on official stationery.
(Page 36, Para 8, Last lines)
CHAPTER 16
He was not ill, of course-only a little tired at times, and bad with his breathing during the winter
months.
(Page 37, Para 1, line 2)
When the bell rang for call-over, he would go to the window and look across the road and over
the School fence and see, in the distance, the thin line of boys filing past the bench.
(Page 37, Para 2, line 2)
The post-war decade swept through with a clatter of change and maladjustments.
(Page 37, Para 3, line 1)
One of the new masters, fresh from Oxford, even let the Sixth call him by his Christian name.
(Page 37, Last line)
Something had happened, something whose ultimate significance had yet to be reckoned.
(Page 38, Para 2, line 3)
Whenever he rose to speak at a meeting, or even when he talked across a table, people prepared
their minds and faces for the joke.
(Page 38, Para 3, line 3)
He came across to the School, however, on fine days; and he still kept up a wide and continual
hospitality in his room.
(Page 38, Para 4, line 3)
He invested in gilt-edged stocks, did not suffer when the slump set in. He gave a lot of his money
away-to people who called on him with a hard- luck story.
(Page 38, Para 4, line 6)
They all asked him questions, as if he were some kind of prophet and encyclopaedia combined-
more even than that, for they liked their answer dished up as a joke.
(Page 39, Para 1, line 1)
There were warm fires, and books, and you could look forward to the summer.
(Page 37, Para 1st, line 7th)
It was the summer that he liked best.
(Page 37, Para 1, line 8)
New times, new news, but the old ones still remained.
(Page 37, Para 2nd, line 3rd)
There was a more genuine friendliness between master and boys _ less pomposity on the one
side, less unctuousness on the other.
(Page 37, Para 3rd, line 11th)
Sometimes, when he was strolling about the School, small boys of the cheekier kind would ask
him questions, merely for the fun of getting Chips's "latest" to retail.
(Page 39, Para 3, line 1)
Your country would have spit more blood in raiding a single liquor saloon!
(Page 38, Para 3, line 3)
CHAPTER 17
Professor Salman ul Waheed
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Pakistan’s Leading MDCAT English Expert
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An old joke and he, of all people, having made so many jokes in his time.
(Page 40, Para 6, line 1)
And it amused him to cap the joke, as it were, with one of his own; to let them see that he could
keep his end up, even yet.
(Page 40, Para 6, line 3)
He remembered that on the eve of his wedding day Kathie had used that same phrase, mocking
him gently for the seriousness he had had in those days.
(Page 41, Last lines)
And then the chorus sang in final harmony, more grandly and sweetly than he had even heard it
before, and more comfortingly too.
(Page 44, Para 2, line 1)
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