Connecticut
Middletown
Grammar
Parts of Speech
Adjectives
100

This park has a famous rock formation called "The Devil’s Hopyard."

What is Devil’s Hopyard State Park?

100

This historic bridge connects Middletown to Portland over the Connecticut River.

What is the Arrigoni Bridge?

100

This tense is used to talk about habits, like "She drinks coffee every morning."

What is the present simple?

100

This part of speech names a person, place, or thing.

What is a noun?

100

This adjective describes a feeling when you are not sad.

What is happy?

200

This state park is famous for its camping and beautiful Long Island Sound views.

What is Hammonasset Beach State Park?

200

This university is located in Middletown and is known for its beautiful campus and strong academic programs.

What is Wesleyan University?

200

You use this article before words that begin with a consonant sound, like "a dog."

What is "a"?

200

This part of speech describes an action or a state of being.

What is a verb?

200

This adjective describes the color of grass.

What is green?

300

This state park in Hamden has a large pond where visitors can swim, fish, and kayak, and it’s named after the shape of the mountain.

What is Sleeping Giant State Park?

300

This youth theater in Middletown offers programs ranging from classic plays to circus skills and serves over 1,200 young people annually.

What is Oddfellows Playhouse?

300

This is the past tense of the verb "go."

What is "went"?

300

This part of speech describes a noun or pronoun, telling us more about it.

What is an adjective?

300

This type of adjective describes how something looks, like big, small, or red.

What is a descriptive adjective?

400

This park in Avon is known for its large forest and the Tower Trail, which leads to a stone lookout tower with panoramic views.

What is Talcott Mountain State Park?

400

This bank was founded in 1825 by a Middletown pharmacist.

What is Liberty Bank?

400

This word is used with uncountable nouns, like "milk," as in "There isn’t ___ milk left."

What is "much"?

400

This part of speech connects words, phrases, or clauses, like and, but, or or.

What is a conjunction?

400

This kind of adjective compares two things, like bigger or smaller.

What is a comparative adjective?

500

This state park was built by an actor who played Sherlock Holmes, and now it has formal gardens and walking trails.

What is Gillette Castle State Park?

500

This park has a beautiful waterfall at its Rockfall parking lot.

What is Wadsworth State Park?

500

This type of sentence talks about unreal situations, like: "If I were rich, I would travel the world."

What is the second conditional?

500

This part of speech shows the relationship between a noun (or pronoun) and another word in the sentence, often showing direction or place, like in, on, or under.

What is a preposition?

500

This adjective shows how many or how much, like two, some, or many.

What is a number or quantity adjective?