Grammar 1
This is the definition of a noun.
What is a person, place, thing, or idea?
This is the definition of a common noun.
What is a general name for a noun?
This is the setting of Al Capone Does My Shirts.
What is Alcatraz Island, 1930s?
This character is Jethro's favored brother at the start of the novel.
Who is Bill?
This is the definition of a proper noun.
What is a name of a specific type of noun?
This is the definition of a subject.
What is who or what the sentence is about?
This character is quiet but has a surprisingly good baseball-throwing arm.
Who is Annie?
This character was the protagonist's school teacher.
Who is Shadrach Yale?
This is the subject of the following sentence: The cow jumped over the moon.
What is cow?
These are all of the nouns in the following sentence: The horse and the boy galloped into the orange sunset.
What is horse, boy, and sunset?
This character befriends Moose at school.
Who is Scout?
This character is an unlikely hero to the protagonist on his way home from running errands in Newton.
Who is Dave Burdow?
These are the two uses of an apostrophe.
What is a contraction and to show possession?
These are all of the pronouns in the following sentence: I didn't believe her when she told that lie.
What is her and she?
This character is hired to help Natalie, and actually seems effective at her job.
Who is Mrs. Kelly?
This is the task that Shadrach gives Jethro to do while he is gone.
What is to read and study a book?
This is the definition of a pronoun.
What is a word that replaces a noun?
These are the words that should have apostrophes in the following sentence: I couldnt believe my sisters luck!
What are couldn't and sister's?
This character is a quiet kid on Alcatraz who goes with the flow on all the kids' adventures.
Who is Jimmy?
This character enjoys hearing about what Jethro learns in school.
Who is Ellen Creighton?