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by Muhammad Tayyab -
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Parts of Speech in the Goldilocks Story

Goldilocks used to live with her parents in a cabin near the forest. One day, she decided to go for a walk. She strolled down the lane that led to the forest and came across a cottage. Feeling intrigued, she decided to check whose house it was. She knocked on the door, but no one answered. Then she decided to go in and check. Once she came into the cottage, she saw three soup bowls kept on the table. Feeling hungry, she drank the soup out of the smallest bowl. She saw a flight of stairs that led to a room above. She decided to go and see the rooms. On reaching the rooms, she saw there were three beds. Feeling sleepy with all the walking and hot soup, she decided to take a nap and slept on the smallest bed. When she woke up, she saw three bears standing in front of her, and the smallest bear among them crying loudly. Terrified, she started screaming and ran past the bear family to reach her home.

Practice

While reading the story of Goldilocks, I found it useful for identifying various parts of speech. The sentences are simple but rich with examples that show how different word types function in storytelling.

Here are some sentences and parts of speech I noticed:

Sentence 1: "Goldilocks used to live with her parents in a cabin near the forest."

  • Noun: Goldilocks, parents, cabin, forest

  • Verb: used to live

  • Pronoun: her

  • Prepositions: with, in, near

  • Article: a, the

Sentence 2: "She knocked on the door, but no one answered."

  • Pronoun: She, no one

  • Verb: knocked, answered

  • Preposition: on

  • Conjunction: but

  • Noun: door

  • Article: the

Sentence 3: "Feeling hungry, she drank the soup out of the smallest bowl."

  • Verb: drank

  • Adjective: hungry, smallest

  • Noun: soup, bowl

  • Prepositions: out of

  • Pronoun: she

  • Article: the

Sentence 4: "Terrified, she started screaming and ran past the bear family to reach her home."

  • Adjective/Participle: Terrified

  • Verb: started, screaming, ran, reach

  • Preposition: past, to

  • Conjunction: and

  • Nouns: bear, family, home

  • Pronoun: she, her