Main Ideas
Parts of Speech
100

If you do an activity as a job, you will not enjoy that activity, even if normally the activity is fun. 

What is the main idea of The Laugher?

100

Words for living beings, places, things, and ideas; like humans, outside, chairs, and happiness.

What are nouns?

200

Public officials are corrupt and violent. 

What is the main idea of One of These Days?

200

Words for actions or states of being, which have a past, present, and future tense; like be, have, go and walk. 

What are verbs?

300

The way society values women for their youth and beauty has terrible consequences for women. 

What is the main idea of Falling Girl?

300

Words that describe nouns; like tall, fast and slow. 

What are adjectives?

400

Trying to protect your family from social embarrassment can have terrible consequences. 

What is the main idea of An Insolvable Problem of Genetics?

400

Words that often describe the relation of one noun to another, like the man is IN the room, or the woman is NEXT TO her friend. 

What are prepositions?

500

The main idea is that capital punishment is terrible for the executioner and the executed. 

What is the main idea of Gregory?

500

Words that often describe adjectives, like very, really, and quickly. 

What are adverbs?