Nouns and Verbs Gone Wrong: Nouns and verbs comic

Nouns and Verbs Gone Wrong

Baron Blunder steals verbs, and the town stops moving. Can Momo save the day?

Starring Momo
Nouns and verbs · Class 3 and up

Garden City. Something is wrong.

Momo: Look at these signs! Birds don't fly anymore. No one talks talk anymore. What’s wrong?

Baron Blunder: I took every verb in the land! Now everyone is stuck! Ha!

Momo: We need them back. How do we make things move again?

First: nouns name things

Birds, dog, park → Nouns name these

Momo: Nouns are the names of people, places, or things. Birds don't fly anymore!

Baron Blunder: Then write this: The dog runs in the park. Ha!

Momo: The sign says park in the middle. Nouns name these!

A dog runs in the park

The park is big

Tip: look for the subjects

Find who or what does the action

Nouns are sentence subjects.

Momo: Always look for the subject. Who or what is doing the action?

Your turn, hero!

Baron Blunder♥♥♥

What do we call people, places, or things in a sentence?

Nouns. Nouns name people, places, or things. Verbs are doing words.

Baron Blunder: Ha! You can’t fix anything now!

What is happening in 'The cat sleeps'?

sleeps. Verbs are doing words. 'Sleeps' is the verb.

The final battle

Baron Blunder♥♥♥

Who or what is doing the action in 'The bird sings in the tree?'

bird. The subject of the sentence is 'The bird', which is doing the action 'sings'.

Baron Blunder: My verbs! They’re flying back to the castle!

Momo: Every sign is right again! The town is moving free!

Garden City can move again. Momo is a hero!

The End?

Remember

Far away in the Grammar Forest, Baron Blunder is making new puzzles...

A comic book about nouns and verbs. Follow Momo, learn the idea, and answer three questions to beat Baron Blunder.

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