Title: I am so MAD!!
Ha Ha! I got you again! Did you ever play that word game, Mad Libs as a kid? My siblings and I did this on long road trips and I can’t remember laughing as hard since then! It is also a great way to help kids learn grammar and parts of speech.
To play Mad Libs, one person reads a Mad Lib story with blanks, and others fill in the blanks with random words. The person reading the story asks for specific parts of speech (noun, adjective, verb, etc.) for each blank. After all the blanks are filled, the story is read aloud, often resulting in a humorous and nonsensical tale.
I thought it would be fun to do this on PoetrySoup! We will have to adjust the rules and instructions of the game to play but I think it will work!
I chose a pretty well known poem to use as our story but it will be a surprise. After we get all of our words filled in, I will edit this blog post and share the original poem and then our MADLIBS poem! I am sure it will get a giggle.
Here’s how we will do this…
Below will be a list of numbered parts of speech (noun, verb, adjective ect…) and some other directives like, color, number, exclaimations. I will add definitions of each at the bottom of this post for anyone who needs a refresher.
Now, pay attention…this gets a teeny bit tricky…
In the comments, the first person to comment will answer the first, second, and third “questions”...i guess we can call them. So, in the comments, this person will give us the first 3 parts of speech asked for in the list. MAKE SURE YOU NUMBER THEM IN THE COMMMENTS!
For example: 1. (noun) fish
2. (verb) jump
3.(color) green
3.Then, the second person to comment will do the following 3 questions. 4.(adj) gross 5. (plural noun) trees 6.(verb ending with “ing”) exploding
So, when you find this and want to join in the fun, just look at which numbers the last person to comment answered, and you do the next three on the list.
I am hoping this will work the way I think but if anything comes up, I will try to rework it and get back to you.
Once all of the blanks have been filled in with your answers, I will post the original poem and the poem we create with the words you’ve given here. It should be hilarious! Please only answer threewhen it's your turn. We want everyone who wishes to, to have a chance to participate. However, if you come back to check up and see there's not a lot of interest then you can take another turn... if you want to.
The list:
1.verb
2.time of day or night
3.famous person
4.number
5.verb
6.noun
7.noun
8.noun
9.adjective
10.verb
11.exclamation!
12.adverb
13.noun
14.noun
15. color
16.relationship (mother, cousin, boss, ect)
17.adjective
18.noun
19.verb
20.noun
21 verb ending in “ing”
22.verb past tense
23.adjective
24.verb ending in “ing”
25.noun and animal (yes, two things but both are number 25)
26.adjective and noun combo( “dirty rat”, “lumpy potatoes”)
27.adjective and adjective(yes two but same number 27)
28.verb
29.verb
30.verb ending in “ing”
31.verb ending in “ed”
32.adjective and adjective
33 verb ending in “ing”
34.exclamation!
35.verb ending in “ed”
36.adjective
37.noun
38 plural verb and verb
39.adjective
40.famous person
41.verb ending in “ed”
42.animal(‘s)
43.verb ending in “ed” and verb ending in “ed”
44.noun plural
45.adjective and adjective
46.exclamation!
47.verb plural
48.verb plural
49.adjective and adjective
50.verb ending in “ ing”
51.noun
52.adjective and adjective
53.adjective
54.verb plural
55.number
56.noun
57.verb ending in “ing’
58.animal
59.noun
60.a place
61.verb
62.verb
63.noun
64.group of animals
65.verb
66.plural noun
67.noun
68.plural noun
69.verb ending in “ed” and verb ending in “ed”
70.noun and noun
71.color
72.plural noun
73.verb ending in “ ing”
74.famous person
75.verb
76.verb
77.verb
78.member of PoetrySoup
Definitions:
Adverb: The definition of an adverb is a word that modifies another part of speech in a sentence. Adverbs often modify verbs, but sometimes they modify adjectives, other adverbs, or even clauses. They do not modify nouns—adjectives do that.
Example: gently, greedily, simply,...Many adverbs do not end in -ly. Examples include always, soon, today, ever, yet, away, here, so, too. One unusual adverb is hard, as in They fought hard.
Verb: an action word
Run, ran, jump, sit, drink, write
Verb ending in ‘ing’: running, sitting, drinking
Verb past tense: ran, drank, opened, halted, wrote
Noun: a person, place, or thing.
a word (other than a pronoun) used to identify any of a class of people, places, or things (common noun), or to name a particular one of these (proper noun).
Examples : car, hand, father, water, pen, river, Arizona
Pronoun:
a type of generic noun that can represent any other noun. Their job is to make communication faster and more efficient because you don’t have to repeat the same word over and over again. Some pronoun examples include: I, me, us, you, themselves, who, that
Adjective: word or phrase naming an attribute, added to or grammatically related to a noun to modify or describe it.
Examples: lovely, sweet, malicious, hot, cold, red, green, soft, clammy, shiny, interesting, awesome.
Exclamation: this could be one word, such as “wow!” Or a phrase like, “ Oh my goodness!” Or “ watch out!”
Number, color, famous person…self explanatory
There may be times it asks you for two answers in one question…write both answers on the same number or line.
I hope you have fun with this but let's keep it PG-13 please. Okay... fingers crossed!! <3