Your Grandma's Grammar
These are people, places, things, and concepts.
What are NOUNS?
I have one eye, a cave full of sheep, and a serious problem with Odysseus.
Who is Polyphemus?
The error in this sentence:
Its so easy to lose your room key.
What is IT'S? (it is)
The Great Depression began in this year.
What is 1929?
The verb phrase in this sentence:
I am making a cool TikTok video.
What is AM MAKING?
These come in two forms: action or state-of-being.
What are VERBS?
I'm the leader of the suitors and the first Odysseus kills.
Who is ANTINOOS?
Is there an error in this sentence?
We'll ask them to park there cars on the street.
What is THEIR? (possessive)
Crude settlements set up by migrants during the 1930s were called these.
What are "Hoovervilles"?
The pronouns in this sentence:
She lost her iPhone at the club.
What are she and her?
Verbs that identifies or links who or what the noun is.
What are STATE OF BEING VERBS?
I'm a monster with six heads and a serious attitude.
Who is Scylla?
The error in this sentence:
I ate too much when I ate too burritos.
What is "TWO burritos"?
The name of the huge government investment program designed by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt to haul the US out of the Great Depression.
What was the New Deal?
the proper noun:
of mice and men
cantaloupe
What is OF MICE AND MEN?
Verbs that work along with the main verb.
What are HELPING VERBS?
Villain or Victim? My infatuation with Paris, a prince of Troy, prompts a war that lasts 10 years.
Who is Helen?
The error in this sentence:
You'll get to take you're turn too, but you'll need to wait until after the next two contestants.
What is YOUR (possessive)?
At its highest during the Great Depression, the unemployment rate reached this level in the early 1930s.
What is approximately 25%
The proper nouns in this sentence:
Mark Sinclair, aka Vin Diesel, plays Dominic Toretto in the "Fast & Furious" franchise.
What are Mark Sinclair, Vin Diesel, Dominic Toretto and "Fast & Furious" franchise.
What are pronouns?
Hero or villain? This guy feels disrespected, he lets his best friend fight in his place, and then he behaves like a real jerk when drags his enemy around the city walls.
Who is Achilles?
The error in this sentence:
Their late to class yet again!
What is THEIR?
The problematic investing strategy that allowed people to borrow money to buys stocks was called this.
What was "buying stock on margin"?
The pronoun and its antecedent in this sentence:
The NFL reports that Derrick Henry of the Tennessee Titans is currently its fastest player.
What are ITS and the NFL?