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C. Answer these questions.

1. Did the tree help the boy when he was hungry and sleepy? How?

2. What did the boy write on the tree? Why?
3. Why did the tree give apples to the boy?

4. When did the tree feel lonely and sad? Why?
5. How did the tree help the boy build a house when he grew up?

6. When old age caught up with the boy, what were the things he couldn’t do?
Discuss.

Think and Answer • Critical Thinking

A. What were the things the tree had given to the boy when he started growing up? What

qualities of the tree do we come to know?

B. Do you think that trees are kind, generous and helpful to all humans? Pick out two

sentences from the story to support your answer.

C. ‘The purpose of life is to give away’ — Pablo Picasso.

Do you agree with this statement? Can you follow this to some extent? Mention some
people you know who have this quality.

Grammar Spot • Nouns—collective, abstract, material
• Adjectives
• Degrees of comparison

Nouns – Collective

We have already discussed common nouns and proper nouns in the previous classes.

Let us take a quick look at collective nouns.
Examples: 1. A gaggle of geese was flying over the tree. REMEMBER
Sometimes, we can use a plural
2. A herd of cows was grazing near the tree. verb with collective nouns.

A collective noun is a word that denotes a group of When the members of the
people, things or animals. It is regarded as a singular group act as individuals, we
use a plural verb.
noun and takes a singular verb.
Examples: 1. The family is in the living room. (singular verb)

2. The members of the family are in different rooms. (plural verb)

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