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Zoo story

Task C – Our answer

Peter has just said that he has two children, and at the time the play was written there would have been a pretty good correlation between having children and being married. So the schematic assumption is obvious enough. Indeed, even today, when many more children are born out of wedlock and many more couples with children are getting divorced, the traditional schematic assumption will probably still be held by many people.

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