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Aesops' Fable # 6:  The Shepherd's Boy
Answer Key for Level 1
Current technology makes it extremely difficult to draw lines, etc. from word to word in web documents. In Level One, I have therefore indicated words modified by prepositional phrases in following brackets. These brackets will be deleted in the answer keys to subsequent levels.
 
 

     There was once a young Shepherd Boy who tended his 

sheep {at the foot} [Adverb to "tended"] {of a mountain} 

[Adjective to "foot"] {near a dark forest.}  [Adjective to "mountain"

or Adverb to "tended"] It was rather lonely {for him} [Adverb to 

either "was" or "lonely"] all day, so he thought upon[Note #1] a plan 

{by which} [Adverb to "could get"] he could get a little company 

and some excitement. He rushed down {towards the village}

[Adverb to "rushed"]  calling out "Wolf, Wolf," and the villagers 

came out to meet him, and some {of them} [Adjective to "some"]

stopped {with him} [Adverb to "stopped"] {for a considerable 

time.} [Adverb to "stopped"] This pleased the boy so much 

that a few days afterwards he tried the same trick, and 

again the villagers came {to his help.} [Adverb to "came"] But 

shortly {after this}[Note #2] a Wolf actually did come out[Note #3]

{from the forest,} [Adverb to "came"] and began to worry the

sheep, and the boy {of course}[Note #4] cried out[Note]

"Wolf, Wolf," still louder than before.  But this time the

villagers, who had been fooled twice before, thought the

boy was again deceiving them, and nobody stirred to come

{to his help.} [Adverb to "to come"] So the Wolf made a good 

meal {off the boy's flock,} [Adverb to "to come"Note #5] and 

when the boy complained, the wise man {of the village}

[Adjective to "man"] said:

      "A liar will not be believed, even when he speaks the 

truth." 

Gutenberg Project
Aesopa10.txt
Notes

1. If you marked "upon a plan" as a prepositional phrase, do not consider it a mistake. The phrase is unusal, perhaps archaic; most of us would probably have written "thought of a plan," in which case I would have been more likely to consider "of a plan" as a prepositional phrase. Either "thought upon" or "thought of" can, in this sentence, be replaced by "conceived." See Verbal Tags.

2. You can take "{after this}" as an adverb to "shortly," or "shortly" as an adverb to "{after this}." In either case, you end up with a phrase that acts as an adverb to "came out."

3. Although I have here considered "out" as an adverb, you could consider "out from the forest" as a prepositional phrase. 

4. At this level, we can consider "{of course}" as an adverb to "cried out," but at Level Five, we will view it as an interjection. In other words, if you were confused about what it refers to, don't worry.

5. I would accept "Adjective to 'meal'," but the phrase can be disconnected from "meal" -- "So, off the boy's flock, the wolf made a good meal." 
 

Progress:
Total Words = 192 Words %
L1: In Prep Phrases  45  23

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