This Is My Desk

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Verb Adjective Adverb Expression

This is Afsona's desk. It is near the window. That desk, near the door, is Dilnoza's.

On Monday morning a new boy sits at Afsona's desk. His bag is on her chair.

"Excuse me," she says. "This is my desk."

"These desks have no names," the boy says.

He is right. These desks are old and grey, and those desks at the back are old and grey too.

"This is my seat because this window is my window," Afsona says. "I water these flowers every morning."

The boy looks at the flowers on the windowsill. Then he looks at the two old pots on the back windowsill.

"Those are dead," he says. "These are not."

"Yes," Afsona says. "Nobody sits at that desk."

The boy takes his bag and walks to the back of the room. On Friday there is water in the two old pots, and one small green leaf.

Now this class has two windows with flowers: this one and that one.

Vocabulary from this story

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right
haq
grey
kulrang
seat
joy, oʻrindiq
water
suv quyaman
windowsill
deraza tokchasi
pots
tuvak
back
orqa tomon
dead
qurigan
leaf
barg

Grammar from this story

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this / these = near · that / those = far

Yaqindagi narsa — this (birlik), these (koʻplik). Uzoqdagi narsa — that, those. Oʻzbekchadagi “bu / bular” va “u / ular” bilan aynan bir xil.

  • This is my desk.
  • Those desks at the back are empty.

With a noun, or alone

Otdan oldin turishi mumkin — this desk, these flowers — yoki otni butunlay almashtirib, yolgʻiz turishi mumkin: This is mine, Those are dead.

  • I water these flowers every morning.
  • Those are dead. These are not.

these / those + plural noun

Koʻplik shakl ikki joyda koʻrinadi: koʻrsatish olmoshida ham, otda ham — these desks, those plants. “These desk” — xato.

  • These desks have no names.

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1. Where does the new boy sit in the end?

2. You point at plants far away from you. What do you say?

3. Why does Afsona say the desk is hers?