adverbs of manners in the missing piece
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The Missing Piece by Shel Silverstein
This is a corrected compilation and EFL recording, by Steve Hoover in support of Claire Wu’s May 6, 2009 Reading Competition. Current Youtube and Internet blog postings contain errors or are of limited suitability for EFL students. No monetary benefits accrue to the compiler: satisfaction in enabling learners does.
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And because it was missing a piece
it could not roll very fast so it would stop to talk to a worm
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but it didn't hold it tightly enough and lost it.
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Another time
it held too tightly
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It fit! It fit perfectly! At last! At last!
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And away it rolled and because it was now complete, it rolled faster and faster. Faster than it had ever rolled before!
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So it stopped rolling... and it set the piece down gently,
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and slowly rolled away
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and as it rolled it softly sang-
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