Learn English Basic Grammar With Simple Examples

Once upon a time there lived a farmer. He had a strange hen. He laid an egg of gold daily. He sold the golden eggs to the goldsmith. Slowly the man became very rich.
He thought that the stomach of the hen must be full of eggs of gold. He could get all the eggs by cutting open the stomach. The farmer became greedy. He was not contented with getting one egg daily. He wanted to get all the eggs at once.
So, he cut open the stomach of the hen. To his surprise there were no golden egg in it. He repented upon his folly. But nothing could be done. He was very sad. He had lost a hen that laid a golden egg daily.
Moral:- 1- Don't be greedy.
            2- Greed is a curse. 
            3- Haste makes waste. 
            4- It is no use crying over spill milk

Once upon a time there was a stag. One day he felt thirsty. He went to a pond. As he bent down to drink water, he saw the reflection of his horns in the water. He felt very proud of his horns. Then his eyes fell on the reflection of his legs of his legs. He did not like them. He was ashamed of them. He cursed his legs for their ugliness. Suddenly he heard the bugle of the hunters and the barking of their dogs. He ran to escape the hunters. But his horns got caught in the bushes. The stag tried very hard to free them. In desperation he gave a massive tug. With the result the horns broke, and he became free. He ran with all his might and managed to save himself from the hunters. The tired stag now cursed his horns for nearly getting him killed.


Moral:- 1- Pride hath a fall. 
             2- All that glitters is not gold. 
             3- Appearance are often deceptive. 

One day a wonderful plate made of gold fell from Heaven into the court of a temple at Benares; and on the plate these words were inscribed: "A gift from Heaven to him who loves best." The priests at once made a proclamation that every day at twelve o'clock, all who would like to claim the plate should assemble at the temple, to have their kind deeds judged.
Everyday for a whole year all kinds of holy men, hermits, scholars and nobles came, and related to the priests their deeds of charity, and the priests in solemn council heard their claims. At last they decided that the one who seemed to be the greatest lover of mankind was a rich man who had that very year given all his wealth to the poor. so they gave him the plate of gold. but when he took it in his hard, it turned to worthless, lead; though, when he dropped it in his amazement on to the floor, it became gold again.
For another year claimants came; and the priests awarded the prize three times. But the same thing happened, showing that Heaven did not consider these men worthy of the gift. Meanwhile a large number of beggars came and lay about the temple gate, hoping that the claimants who came would give them alms to prove they were worthy of the golden plate. It was a good time for the beggars, because the pilgrims gave them plenty of money; but they gave them no sympathy, nor even a look of pity.

King Francis was a great lover of all kinds of spots; and one day he and his courtiers, noblemen and ladies, sat watching wild savage lions fighting each other in the enclosure below. Amongst the courtiers sat Count de Lorge beside a beautiful and lively lady of noble birth whom he loved and hoped to marry. The lions roared, and bit and tore each other with savage fury, until the king said to his courtiers, "Gentlemen, we are better up here than down there!"
The lady, hearing him, thought she would show the king and his court how devoted her lover was to he: so she dropped her glove down among the savage lions, and then looked at Count de Lorge and smiled at him. He bowed to her, and leaped down among the savage lions without hesitation, recovered the glove, and climbed back to his place in a few moments. Then he threw the glove right in the lady's face.
King Francis cried out, "Well and bravely done! but it was not love that made you lady set you such a dangerous thing to do, but her vanity!"

One of the boys in a village was sent out into fields to look after the sheep.
“Mind you take care of them and don’t let them stray,” said the villagers to him. “And keep a good look out for wolves. Don’t go far away: and if you see a wolf coming near the sheep, shout out ‘Wolf’ as loudly as you can, and we will come at once to help you.”
“All right!” said the boy, “I will be careful.”
So every morning he drove his sheep out to the hillside and watched them all day. And when evening came, he drove them home again.
But after a few days he got rather tired of this lonely life. Nothing happened and no wolves came. So one afternoon he said to himself: “These villagers have given me a very stupid job. I think I will play a trick on them just for fun.”
So he got up and began shouting as loudly as he could, “Wolf! Wolf!”
The people in the village heard him, and at once they came running with sticks.

To tell even a simple story we requires some practice. An uneducated person generally tells a tale badly. He does not mentally look ahead as he tells it and plans it out. So he repeats himself, omits important items, which he drags in afterwards out of place, and dwells too long on minor details and fails to emphasise the leading points. To write a good story, you must have the whole plot clear in your mind, and the main points arranged in their proper order.
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