"If you like, i'll make you a present of them."-Who is the speaker? Who is the person spoken to? What would the speaker make a present of? Why did the speaker say so?
"If you like, i'll make you a present of them."- Who is the speaker? Who is the person spoken to? What would the speaker make a present of? Why did the speaker say so?
Here, Ivan Vassilevitch Lomov is the speaker. Natalya Stepanovna is the person spoken to. The speaker, Lomov would make a present of the Oxen Meadows to Natalya.
Lomov and Natalya had a quarrel over the ownership of Oxen Meadows. According to Lomov, the peasants of Natalya's father's grandfather used to bake bricks for his aunt's grandmother. Therefore the Oxen Meadows which Natalya claimed to be her property actually belonged to the Lomovs. As Lomov was going to marry Natalya, he could make a present of them to her.
"How have you the right to give away somebody else's property?" - Who is the speaker? What property is referred to here? Why does the speaker ask this question?
Here, the speaker is Ivan Vassilevitch Lomov. Here, the property referred to is the Oxen Meadows.
Lomov and Natalya argue over the ownership of Oxen Meadows and soon Chubukov also joins them. According to Lomov, his aunt's grandmother had given the free use of the meadows to the peasants of Chubukov grandfather for forty years and in return, they had to make bricks for her. But Natalya and Chubukov refuse to believe his words and claim that the meadows belong to them only. Chubukov threatens Lomov, saying that, if he keeps on arguing about the ownership of the meadows, then he will give away the meadows to the peasants rather than giving those to him. At this, Lomov asks Chubukov this question because according to him the meadows belong to him therefore, Chubukov can not give away his property to someone else.
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