GOLU GROWS A NOSE Summary -by Joseph Rudyard Kipling Golu, a baby elephant with a bulging snout, lived in an era when elephants didn’t have trunks. He was an inquisitive baby who kept pestering his relatives with questions, leading them to assume he was a mischievous baby. He wondered one day, “What do crocodiles eat for dinner?” He was led to the Limpopo […]
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BRINGING UP KARI Summary -by Dhan Gopal Mukerji “Bringing up Kari” is an exciting story written by “Dhan Gopal Mukerji“. This story is about a five-month-old baby elephant and the narrator. “Bringing up Kari” speaks about two incidents. The first incident talks about Kari’s kind-heartedness and caring tendency and the second one speaks about Kari’s transformation of character. The story goes on like
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THE TINY TEACHER ~Summary~ -by Gill Vaisey The smallest and wisest insect is undoubtedly “ants“. People used to grow ants as pets to learn their behavioural activities. The most common type of ants are the red and black ants. Ants live in anthills which consists of separate chambers for queen ants, grubs, worker ants, and soldier ants. There are separate nurseries, reserved quarters, storehouses and barracks for various purposes within an anthill.
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Adjectives: Participles and Nominal Adjectives Participles What are Participles? Let us read the following sentences. 1. The revellers were feasting on the food. 2. Feasting on the food, the revellers sang songs. In the above sentences, the word feasting is used in two different ways. Let us look at more examples. 1. Fatima is singing
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What is an Adverb? Types of Adverbs An adverb is a word which tells us more about In the previous classes, you have been taught the following types of adverbs: These are also called simple adverbs. Let us look at a few examples of each type. Simple Adverbs Adverbs can also be used in question
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What are Articles? Articles Let us look at a few examples: In the above examples, we see that the articles are used immediately before a noun in the first case; before two adjectives and a noun in the second case; and before three adjectives and a noun in the third case. Therefore, we can say
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What is a Clause? Clauses A clause is a group of words containing a subject (S) and predicate (P). It can stand on its own expressing complete meaning. Example: Seema will come. The above sentence has a subject, i.e. ‘Seema’, and a predicate, i.e. ‘will come’. The two phrases when combined into one make complete
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What is Comparison? Degrees of Comparison The grammatical structure of comparison has three degrees: Let us understand how these degrees are used to compare adjectives and adverbs. The Positive Degree The positive degree is used to draw a comparison at a same level. The positive degree is formed by using the adjective or the adverb
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What is a Conjunction? Conjunctions Conjunctions are words used solely for connecting other words or phrases in a sentence. In the process, they often serve to compress the length of a sentence. They perform no other function what so ever. Examples: Complete the task before noon. Seema collected flowers and leaves from the garden. She
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Direct and Indirect Speech What is Direct and Indirect Speech? The words of a speaker can be reported in two ways: Direct speech involves quoting the exact words of the speaker. Indirect (Reported) speech is used to report what a person said. Rules for Changing Direct Speech into Indirect Speech Tenses Direct Speech Indirect Speech
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