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Great sentence—almost perfect!

Corrected sentence (simple): Anteaters don’t have teeth. They lick up ants and termites with a super-sticky tongue.

What I changed and why:

  1. Split into two short sentences. Short sentences are easier to read. Your original used a dash, which is okay, but two sentences are clearer for young readers.
  2. Hyphenated "super-sticky." When two words come before a noun and act together (like "super" + "sticky" describing "tongue"), we usually join them with a hyphen: super-sticky tongue.
  3. Small wording choice. I used "don’t have" instead of "have no" because it sounds a bit more natural in everyday speech for kids, but both are grammatically correct.

Meaning (easy steps):

  1. Anteaters don’t have teeth.
  2. They have a very long, sticky tongue.
  3. They lick up ants and termites with that tongue to eat them.

Your original sentence was clear and correct in meaning—just a couple of tiny style improvements make it even better. Nice work!


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