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Vocabulary
Animal Homes
Read the following sentence.
A flood washed Rikki-tikki out of his burrow.
The place where a mongoose lives is called a burrow. Another animal that lives in a burrow
is the rabbit.
A. Given below are the homes of some animals. For each one, name another
animal that lives in the same home.
home animal 1 animal 2
hole squirrel
eyrie vulture
cave bear
pen pig
hive wasp
Nouns: Masculine and Feminine
Read the following examples.
Teddy’s mother and father
Darzee and his wife
Nagaina and her husband, Nag
The words mother, father, wife and husband tell us the gender of the given nouns.
Some examples of masculine and feminine nouns are as follows:
masculine feminine
fox vixen
landlord landlady
nephew niece
peacock peahen
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