{"id":656,"date":"2012-02-01T13:12:47","date_gmt":"2012-02-01T18:12:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/english\/?p=656"},"modified":"2014-08-01T16:02:54","modified_gmt":"2014-08-01T20:02:54","slug":"young-ones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/english\/young-ones\/","title":{"rendered":"Young Ones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With all this cold and snowy weather that many places are having, it might seem like a strange time to be thinking about babies.\u00a0 Usually spring is the season for that.\u00a0 But just this weekend one of my friends had a new baby, so I thought it might be the perfect time to review the English names of young animals and creatures.<\/p>\n<p>Since we are on the topic of human babies, let\u2019s start there and then move onto some of the animals:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A young person is called a <strong>child<\/strong> (or a baby is a really, really young person!).<\/li>\n<li>A young cat is called a <strong>kitten<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>A young cow is called a <strong>calf<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>A young goose is called a <strong>gosling<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>A young hen is called a <strong>chick<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>A young dog is called a <strong>puppy<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>A young pig is called a <strong>piglet<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Why don\u2019t you have a go by thinking of five animals or creatures that you are not certain of the word for their young and do some research online or using a reference book.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to take the practise even further, why not look up in a <a href=\"http:\/\/thesaurus.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">thesaurus<\/a> some adjectives that mean <em>very small<\/em>.\u00a0 Remember, an adjective is a describing word and a really good post about adjectives can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/english\/parts-of-speech-in-english-adjectives-and-adverbs\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>After you have found the names of some young animals and some adjectives that mean very small, go ahead and put them together to see what sentences you can make.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<img width=\"300\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2012\/02\/1109186_puppy_1.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image tmp-hide-img\" alt=\"Puppies\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><p>With all this cold and snowy weather that many places are having, it might seem like a strange time to be thinking about babies.\u00a0 Usually spring is the season for that.\u00a0 But just this weekend one of my friends had a new baby, so I thought it might be the perfect time to review the&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/english\/young-ones\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":69,"featured_media":657,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[134956,135139,135370],"tags":[1897,191024,49718,191021,191020],"class_list":["post-656","post","type-post","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english-grammar","category-english-language","category-english-vocabulary","tag-animals","tag-baby","tag-child","tag-creatures","tag-young-ones"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/69"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=656"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4009,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656\/revisions\/4009"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}