Six Children, Three Buses

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Verb Adjective Adverb Expression

On Friday, the school goes to a village. Three buses wait at the gate.

Every bus has thirty children. Two women and one man travel with them. The men in the village know the teacher well.

In the village there are sheep everywhere. "One sheep, ten sheep," Jasur says. "The word is the same."

The children walk under the trees. Leaves fall on their heads. Afsona counts them: ten, twenty, fifty.

At one o'clock they eat sandwiches and tomatoes. Two knives cut the bread. Nobody is hungry after that.

At five o'clock their feet hurt and their bags are heavy. But nobody complains. The buses are warm, and thirty children in every bus sleep all the way home.

Vocabulary from this story

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village
qishloq
travel
safar qiladi
everywhere
hamma yerda
fall
tushadi
hungry
och
hurt
ogʻriydi
complains
shikoyat qiladi
warm
iliq

Grammar from this story

Key patterns that appeared in the text.

-s / -es (bus → buses, tomato → tomatoes)

Oddiy koʻplik -s bilan yasaladi. Agar soʻz -s, -ss, -sh, -ch, -x, -o bilan tugasa, talaffuz uchun -es qoʻshiladi.

  • Three buses wait at the gate.
  • They eat sandwiches and tomatoes.

-f / -fe → -ves (knife → knives, leaf → leaves)

Bir guruh soʻzda oxirgi -f koʻplikda -ves ga aylanadi: knife, leaf, wife, life, half, shelf, wolf.

  • Two knives cut the bread.
  • Leaves fall on their heads.

Irregular: child → children, woman → women, foot → feet

Bir nechta soʻz butunlay oʻzgaradi — bularni yodlash kerak: child–children, man–men, woman–women, foot–feet, tooth–teeth. Va sheep, fish hech qanday oʻzgarmaydi.

  • Every bus has thirty children.
  • Their feet hurt.
  • One sheep, ten sheep.

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1. How many children travel in each bus?

2. Which plural is written correctly?

3. Why does nobody complain at five o'clock?