It is raining and I am waiting for the bus.
The bus doesn't come.
I have no umbrella.
An old woman stands next to me.
She has a big umbrella.
Come here, she says, there is room.
We wait together and talk.
Then the bus comes, and we laugh.
The Bus Isn't Coming
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Words in this story
- be
- is / am / are / was
- rain
- water falls from the sky
- wait
- to stay until something happens
- bus
- a big car for many people
- do
- to perform; helps make questions and negatives
- come
- to move toward a place
- have
- to own; helper verb (has tasted)
- umbrella
- a thing you hold over you in the rain
- old
- not new; not young
- woman
- an adult female person
- stand
- to be on your feet
- next
- next to = beside
- big
- large
- come
- to move toward a place
- here
- in this place
- say
- to tell with words
- there
- in that place
- room
- a part of a house with walls
- together
- with each other
- talk
- to speak with someone
- then
- after that
- laugh
- to make sounds because something is funny