gIZMO'S GRAMMAR
GIZMO’S MISERABLE LIFE IN THE FOREST.
1. Gizmo is an owl. He isn’t an ordinary bird.
2. Gizmo has two brothers and one sister but he hasn’t got many friends.
3. Gizmo can fly really fast but he can’ t swim.
4. He usually sleeps during the day but he doesn’t sleep at night.
5. At the moment Gizmo is hunting.
6. He has caught two hundred mice this month but he hasn’t eaten all of them.
7. Gizmo has been chasing another mouse for half an hour.
8. Last month two mice escaped and Gizmo didn’t catch them. He was devastated.
9. He was looking for the mice all day long.
10. The mice had escaped before Gizmo noticed the hollow was empty.
11. Gizmo had been building the hollow for many weeks before the mice escaped.
12. He will build a better hollow next year.
13. He will be building the hollow during the first cold days.
14. The hollow will have been built by next winter.
15. By next winter Gizmo will have been building the hollow for two months.
16. Mice are kept in the hollow.
17. Last year the nest was made in a week.
18. When the nest was being built Gizmo had to find a lot of stick and dried leaves.
19. This year the nest is being built out of thicker sticks.
20. If he makes a nice nest, he will have offspring.
21. If he had made a better nest last year, he would have had offspring last year.
22. If Gizmo was more talented as a builder, his life wouldn’t be so miserable.
23. One day Gizmo met a tourist in the forest who told him to stop hooting at night.
24. Gizmo knew that he couldn’t stop hooting if he wanted to find a partner.
25. He doesn’t really enjoy meeting tourists in the forest.
26. He would like to live in peace and quiet.
27. Owls are interesting, aren’t they?
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