Grammatical Quandaries
This is the part of speech used to identify people, places or things.
What is a noun?
This is the main character in Little House on the Prairie.
Who is Laura Ingalls?
This is the first character that Isabel meets in Adventures of Isabel.
Who is the bear?
In this type of writing, the author states an opinion.
What is opinion writing?
This type of sentence asks a question.
What is an interrogative sentence?
This type of sentence gives a command.
What is an imperative sentence?
In "The Trumpet of the Swan", this is the female swan who marries Louis.
Who is Serena?
Finish these lines from Adventures of Isabel:
Isabel, Isabel, didn't worry.
Isabel didn't _______ or ___________.
What is scream and scurry?
This type of writing provides information to its readers. It is also known as explanatory writing.
What is informative writing?
In "Pinocchio", Gepetto sells this to purchase Pinocchio a primer.
What is his coat?
This part of speech answers the questions when, where, or how.
What is an adverb.
These were the "Assassins" in Pinocchio.
Who are the fox and the cat?
This poem is about the Mudville 9 and a baseball game they played.
What is "Casey at the Bat"?
In this type of writing, there is a beginning, middle and end.
What is narrative writing?
This person was supposed to win the game for the Mudville 9.
Who is Casey? (Casey at the Bat)
This part of speech modifies a noun.
What is an adjective?
In "The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe", this is what the White Witch calls herself.
Who is the Queen of Narnia?
A poem is made up of these two parts.
What are stanzas and lines?
This part of speech answers the questions whose, which one, what kind, and how many.
What is an adjective?
This is a prepositional phrase that comes at the beginning of a sentence.
What is an introductory prepositional phrase?
She is the girl who first visited Narnia through the wardrobe.
Who is Lucy?
What is the rhyme scheme of the first stanza of "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening":
Whose woods these are I think I know.
His house is in the village though;
He will not see me stopping here
To watch his woods fill up with snow.
know A
though A
here B
snow A
All sentences should start with this.
What is a capital letter?