Question

Make notes of the following passage and prepare a summary using the notes:
Butterflies - in garden - all different colours - 50,000 - kinds of butterflies. Suck - nectar - feelers help find its way - tube mouth - suck nectar- tiny holes breathe - four stages egg-butterfly - William Wordsworth - poem on butterfly - sleeping (or) feeding.

Answer 1

Hint: We have to write a summary using all the words given in the question. This is called summarising. While preparing this summary, we have to connect all the given words with grammatically correct sentences. Every sentence should be related to the sentence directly after it.

Complete step-by-step answer:

From a quick reading of the given points, we can understand that the summary is going to be about butterflies. The author is talking about kinds of butterflies, some features of them such as how they suck nectar, how they navigate, how they breathe and how a butterfly evolves. Then there is a mention of William Wordsworth and his poem on butterflies. Therefore, we have to prepare a summary along these lines using sentences which will connect all of these ideas together.
There are many butterflies in the garden and all of them are of different colours. There are at least 50,000 kinds of butterflies. They suck nectar with their mouth shaped like a tube. A butterfly’s feelers help it to find its way. It has tiny holes on the side of its body for breathing. A caterpillar turns into a butterfly in four stages. They are egg, larva, caterpillar and finally, butterfly. William Wordsworth, a great poet, has written a poem on butterflies called ‘To a Butterfly’ where he says that he does not know whether they are sleeping or feeding.
As we can see, the above summary includes all the points given in the question. They have been connected using grammatically correct sentences, spellings and punctuations.

Note: Summaries are usually supposed to be approximately 100 words. While writing a summary, we need to use all our knowledge of the English Language, such as correct usage of verbs, nouns, articles, prepositions, etc. We have to understand the context of the points and frame an image in our head. Then we can proceed to write the idea of using the tools of English Grammar. After writing the summary, we should read it once to make sure it is making sense and to make required changes.