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3 Nouns

Warm-up

Read each sentence and write the number of nouns it contains.

1. A gnat flew over a meadow and settled on the tip of one of the horns of a bull.

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2. One dry summer, when most rivers and lakes dried up, and there was scarcity
of water, a thirsty crow found a pitcher with a little water in it.

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3. One bright day in the warm sunshine of late autumn, a family of ants were
storing up the grain for winter, when a grasshopper, faint with starvation,
came up and humbly begged for a bite to eat.

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4. A poor woodman was cutting down a tree near the edge of a deep pool in the

forest when the axe slipped and flew out of his hands into the pool.

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5. One unfortunate day, a fox was caught in a trap. After many attempts, he

succeeded in getting away but he had to sacrifice his beautiful bushy tail.

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6. Two men were travelling in company through a forest, when, all at once, a
huge bear crashed out of the bush near them. One of the men, thinking of
his own safety, climbed a tree. The other, unable to fight the savage beast
alone, threw himself on the ground and lay still, as if he were dead. He had
heard that a bear will not touch a dead body. Misfortune is the test of true
friendship.

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20