1.For a long time after the Lord created the world, the only creatures on it were the animals. 2.My grandmother writes without commas or full stops 3.“Who put de clock back, eh!!” Examine each opening sentence carefully. To what degree does each sentence give a clue as to the story which is to follow and the use of language within it?Ans:The first sentence of the story “Why apes look like people?” already gives us a clue that the story is a fable. The phrase, “For a long time”, simply shows the common opening sentence to children’s fables, other similar sentences which appear in fables are, “Once upon a time”, “Long long ago”. Then the following phrase, “Lord created the world, the only creatures on it were the animals”, Lord is one of the most common characters and animals obviously are the favourite characters in fables. Then the second particular point of this sentence is that the sentence is phrased in a straightforward way, they are simple words without any accompany of profound or bombastic words, which are clearly meant for readers mostly like children. The main motive of the simple and straightforward words is to make sure the children understand the fable and enjoy it. The language is standard, which we can assume that the following story will mostly be in a standard form of English. The third point of this sentence is that we can interpret what the story which is to follow will be like from the phrase, “the only creatures on it were the animals,” which means that something must have happened to change the fact that the animals were the only creatures living in the world. Then from here, we can interpret that perhaps the existence of human beings creates some changes in the animals’ lifestyles, the environment they live in and their habitats.Normally in every fable, animals are the main characters, thus they will be given a sig...
