2.
3 Teeny-tiny
Once upon a time there as a teeny-tiny woman who lived in a teeny-tiny house
in a teeny-tiny village. Now, one day this teeny-tiny woman tied her teeny-tiny
scarf, and went out of her teeny-tiny house to take a teeny tiny walk. And when
this teeny-tiny woman had gone a teeny-tiny way, she came to a teeny-tiny gate;
so the teeny-tiny woman opened the teeny-tiny gate, and went into a teeny-tiny
churchyard.
And when this teeny-tiny woman had got into the teeny-tiny churchyard, she
saw a teeny-tiny bone on a teeny-tiny grave, and the teeny-tiny woman said to
her teeny-tiny self:
‘This teeny-tiny bone will make, me some teeny-tiny soup for my teeny-tiny
supper.’
So the teeny-tiny woman put the teeny-tiny bone into her teeny-tiny pocket,
and went home to her teeny-tiny house.
Now, when the teeny-tiny woman got home to her teeny-tiny house, she was a
teeny-tiny bit tired; so she went up her teeny-tiny stairs to her teeny-tiny bed,
and put the teeny-tiny bone into a teeny-tiny cupboard. And when this teeny-tiny
woman had been to sleep a teeny-tiny time, she was awakened by a teeny-tiny
voice from the teeny-tiny cupboard, which said:
‘Give me my bone!’
And this teeny-tiny woman was a teeny-tiny bit frightened, so she hid her
teeny-tiny head under the teeny-tiny clothes and went to sleep again. And when
she had been to sleep again a teeny-tiny time, the teeny-tiny voice again cried out
from the teeny-tiny cupboard teeny-tiny louder,
‘Give me my bone!’
This made the teeny-tiny woman a teeny-tiny more frightened, so she hid her
teeny-tiny head a teeny-tiny further under the teeny-tiny clothes. And when the
teeny-tiny woman had been to sleep again a teeny-tiny time, the teeny-tiny voice
from the teeny-tiny cupboard said a teeny-tiny louder,
‘Give me my bone!’
And this teeny-tiny woman was a teeny-tiny bit more frightened, but she put
her teeny-tiny head out of the teeny tiny clothes, and said in her loudest teeny-
tiny voice,
‘Take it’
:
Teeny tiny (आम र पर ब ऱ भ म य )।
Village ।
Scarf ऱ ब र ओर ऱप प - मफऱर ।
Churchyard - पर र म य फ ।
य ।
Grave म र, ।
Supper र भ ।
To be frightened बर । Further आ ।
Language study
1. Main verbs and auxiliary (helping) verbs
Read the following sentences.
1. She came to a teeny-tiny gate.
2. The teeny-tiny woman opened the teeny-tiny gate.
3. She was a teeny-tiny bit tired.
4. She had a dog.
5. She does all the work.
Here in 3,4 and 5 respectively, the verbs ‘be’ (was), ‘have’ (had) and ‘do’ (does) are used
as main verbs. But ‘be’, ‘have’, and ‘do’ are also used with other main verbs to show
certain things. Then they are called helping or auxiliary verbs. Let us see some of these
uses.
Auxiliary Verb : Do
‘Do’ is used with the main verb-
a) To form questions : Yes/No questions
Do you know the answer?
Did you see the bird?
Wh-questions : What did she say?
What does he want?
b) To form negative sentences :
We did not eat it. She does not like flowers.
They did not do it.
2. You know that adjectives are used to describe nouns. They describe
many aspects of a noun. Find more examples that will fit in each of the
boxes below :
( म म ऱम Adjectives य र (
ब ) ऱ य । र
र । य ऱ य र ऱ । )
Ans.
Size Age Shape Colour
A small stone A young man A square box A pink dress
A big balloon An old lady A round ring A red balloon
A tall tree A younger son A triangular A green singal
hanger
A large area An adult life A white kurta
Diamond-shaped
eyes
Origin Quality Material Use
Chinese rice A wise king A plastic toy A swimming tank
American dollars A noble cause An iron tool A bathing suit
Indian culture An honest A golden bangle A jumping rope
servant
Japanese gadgets A copper pipe Drinking water
A brave act
3. Write the pairs of adjectives that can be used in place of teeny-tiny in
the given story : ( म ‘teeny-tiny’ ब ऱ मऱ ऱय
य ऱ । )
Ans. 1) big-fat 2) old-simple 3) good-bad
These pairs of adjectives can be used in the most of the places in the story; but
not in all the places in the story.
4. Read the following sentences and fill in the blanks : ( य र
प र :)
(The answer are given directly and underlined.)
1) The teeny-tiny woman lived in a teeny-tiny house in a teeny-tiny village.
2) The teeny-tiny woman went out to take a teeny-tiny walk.
3) The teeny-tiny woman went into a teeny-tiny churchyard.
4) The teeny-tiny woman found a teeny-tiny bone on a teeny-tiny grave.
5) The teeny-tiny woman put the teeny-tiny bone into her teeny-tiny pocket.
6) The teeny-tiny woman went home and put the teeny –tiny bone into a
teeny-tiny cupboard.
7) The teeny-tiny woman was awakend by a teeny-tiny voice from the teeny-
tiny cupboard.
8) The teeny-tiny woman was a teeny-tiny bit frightened.
9) The teeny-tiny woman said in her loudest teeny-tiny voice.
a. The word ‘teeny-tiny’ is a compound word. Write other words like
teeny-tiny. ( Teeny-tiny । र य
ऱ ।)
Ans. Incy wincy tick tock flip flacp hickory dickary
Chit chat cirss cross ding dong bow wow
