Look at the grid above. Each cell contains the name of a word category or part of speech. By choosing the right part of speech from a selection below, you can make a sentence appear from a well-known book, one word at a time. If you choose wrongly, you will see a message that tells you this. You will need to scroll down in this window or use the hyperlinks, to see all the selections. Good luck. Make first choice.
From the list below choose an article.
football | dog | spoke | green | an | crying | death | beneath | next word
From the list below choose a verb.
fishcake | hot | ugly | green | in | got | yesterday | beneath | next word
From the list below choose a word that can be a conjunction or adverb.
carried | slug | under | yesterday | when | death | hairy | cheerful | next word
From the list below choose a noun.
listened | arm-chair | careful | fantastic | on | the | whereas | dribbled | next word
From the list below choose a pronoun.
eating | smell | carrot | worm | they | over | tomorrow | dying | next word
From the list below choose a noun.
sprint | under | clever | slowly | fire | a | undone | we | next word
From the list below choose a verb.
banana | cold | before | smelly | in | horribly | made | sometimes | next word
From the list below choose a noun.
went | parlour | she | along | with | warm | cunningly | nine | next word
From the list below choose an article.
soap | in | yes | six | by | has | this | a | next word
From the list below choose another article.
that | the | nor | going | puddle | slimy | easily | vex | next word
From the list below choose a conjunction.
wish | slightly | tooth | why | us | golf-ball | and | leech | next word
From the list below choose a noun - though in our sentence it functions as an adverbial.
enter | their | we | pointed | off | home | stupid | them | next word
From the list below choose an article.
coyote | droppings | the | sludge | filament | those | my | cuddle | next word
From the list below choose the final article.
their | this | these | those | them | thine | though | the | next word
From the list below choose a preposition.
rain | inn | vandal | in | swim | badger | now | shellfish | next word
From the list below choose an adjective.
brain | with | weasel | twenty | perhaps | drainpipe | dream | bright | next word
From the list below choose a noun.
cunning | bury | seldom | mole | unlikely | imagine | high | less | next word
From the list below choose the last preposition.
doctor | who | in | fine | words | butter | no | parsnips | next word
From the list below choose a transitive finite verb.
remember | you're | a | Womble | planted | three | blind | mice | last word
From the list below choose a noun.
render | rather | grim | think | red | read | soon | rat | guess the title
Look at the list below and try to choose the title of the book from which the sentence comes. Click on your choice to see if you are right.
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