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The genre of this text is

Answer: fiction

Look at the bold words in the story. All of the bold words are 

Answer: verbs

A lot of the time in fiction stories, the author uses the past tense.
The past tense means that the story is told

Answer: before the present time

To create a simple past tense verb, you must add what ending to the verb

Answer: -ed

So now we know that

        verb + -ed = simple past tense



Floated, trotted, scampered and slithered are examples of what types of verbs.

Answer: action