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A limerick usually starts with the words:
‘There was a/an…’, ‘There once was a…’, and so on.
Let us read a limerick and have a good laugh!
Old Man with a Beard
There was once an Old Man with a beard,
Who said, “It is just as I feared
Two Owls and a Hen,
Four Larks and a Wren,
Have all built their nests in my beard!”
A. Discuss with your partner.
1. Which part of the poem ‘The Tummy Beast’ did you find most funny?
2. Did the tummy beast keep troubling the little boy? How?
Word Wise • Antonyms
A. Give antonyms for the following words.
1. Small 2. Thin
3. Wrong 4. Cried
Punctuation • Contractions
• Questions tags
We already know that contractions are short forms of some commonly used words. We
use an apostrophe (’) in place of the dropped letters.
Examples: I will → I’ll; she cannot → she can’t; he will not → he won’t;
I did not → I didn’t; she does not → she doesn’t;
did she not → didn’t she
A. Write the contractions of these words.
1. She will not → 2. He will →
3. We have → 4. There is not →
5. That is → 6. They will →
7. We are → 8. It is →
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