Harrison Bergeron
The Pedestrian
Parts of Speech
Verbs
Prepositions
100
This is the reason Hazel cried at the end of the story.
What is because her son was shot.
100
Leonard Mead is doing this when he is stopped by the police.
What is walking
100
This is a person, place, thing or idea.
What is a noun
100
There are this many types of verbs and they are named...
What are three and action, linking and auxiliary/helping
100
In the following sentence, this/these is/are the preposition(s): The students in Mr. Lin's class were having an argument.
What is IN
200
How George and Hazel felt about the handicaps.
What is that they were fair.
200
The sidewalks being overgrown and buckling implies this.
What is that no one uses them anymore.
200
This part of speech modifies/describes nouns or pronouns.
What is an adjective
200
This type of verb connects the subject of the sentence to a word in the predicate.
What is a linking verb
200
In this sentence, this/these is/are the preposition(s): Television ranks among the top inventions.
What is AMONG
300
These amendments were created to make everyone equal.
What are the 211th, 212th & 213th amendments
300
This reason is most likely why Leonard Mead is arrested by the police after his conversation with them.
What is he does not own a television
300
This part of speech also expresses a condition or state of being.
What is a verb
300
This type of verb is always found with another verb to offer some "assistance".
What is a helping/auxiliary verb
300
In this sentence, this is/are the prepositions: That car ran over the dog and right through the stop sign!
What are OVER and THROUGH
400
These three things can be inferred about Harrison by the fact that he wears huge headphones, huge spectacles with wavy lenses, scrap metal around his neck, a red ball for his nose, has shaved eyebrows and black caps on is teeth.
What is that he is very smart, handsome and strong
400
This is the unique quality about the police/police car.
What is it is unmanned - run by a computer/machine
400
This part of speech shows the relationship between a noun or pronoun and another word in the sentence.
What is a preposition
400
This type of action verb appears with a direct object in the sentence (its type has two parts)
What is a transitive verb
400
In this sentence, this/these is/are the preposition(s): The telephone allows for communication across the country and even around the world!
What are FOR, ACROSS and AROUND
500
This is the author's theme/message of the story.
What is that the author believes that the idea of equality is impossible to achieve.
500
This is the author's theme for the story.
What is that television will cause the decline of society
500
This is an adverb's function in a sentence.
What is to modify/explain verbs, adjectives or other adverbs
500
This is what separates a transitive verb from an intransitive verb.
What is the transitive verb has a direct object
500
In this sentence, this/these is/are the preposition(s): Johnny could not go to school because of his fever.
What are TO, BECAUSE and OF
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