Q1.
New Words: pleasantest, cattle, countryside. Find out what each new word means.
Answer
These are the three words the book puts in the New Words box on page 104. All three come from the poem itself.
| Word | What it means | The line it comes from |
|---|---|---|
| pleasantest | the most enjoyable of all | “Oh, I do think it the pleasantest thing,” |
| cattle | cows, bulls and buffaloes kept by people | “Rivers and trees and cattle and all,” |
| countryside | the open land outside a town, with fields and villages | “Over the countryside.” |
Sentences of my own, to show how they are used:
- Sitting under the neem tree is the pleasantest part of my day.
- The cattle walked home slowly in the evening.
- My grandmother lives in the countryside, near a river.
Why pleasantest ends in –est: Pleasant means nice. Pleasanter means nicer than one other thing. Pleasantest means the nicest of all. The ending –est always says “the most” — tall, taller, tallest.
Careful with cattle: We never say “one cattle” or “cattles”. The word already means many animals. We say a cow for one animal, and cattle for the whole group.