Silly Snail

Parts of Speech Game

Deborah M. Lott
Super Star DML Publishing, 2009

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 Silly Snail
Parts of Speech Game

1. Place the sentence cards face down next to the Silly Snail game
board.
2. Player one draws a card, reads the sentence, and names the part of
speech of the bolded word (common noun, proper noun, pronoun,
verb, adjective, or adverb).
3. If he answers correctly, he then moves his game piece (not included)
along the game path, stopping at the correct part of speech.
4. First player to FINISH wins the game.

Note: An answer key is provided for reference in checking answers.

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Proper
Verb
Noun
Pronoun
Adjective

Pronoun Common
Proper
Adverb
Noun
Noun
Common

Common Noun Adverb

Verb
Noun Start
Adverb
Adverb
Silly Adjective
Pronoun
Adjective
Finish
Proper
Snail Verb Verb or
Noun
Adjective
A Parts of Speech Game
 1.The cat howled at the 14.My mother served us
moon. prickly porcupine for
dinner.

3. Mary hid the key in the 4.Your sweater is too

doghouse. small for the cat.

21.Please leave your 6.The flag is blowing in the

shoes in your bed. breeze.

39. Mark lost his ball at the 8.Dougs pet rat is hiding
park. under the couch.

49. Look for the rake in the 10.These pink slippers

freezer. will keep your ears warm.

11. Mrs. Brown taught her 12. Which presidents are

class the Pledge of carved on Mount
Allegiance. Rushmore?
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 13. Mom! Come help me 2. Washington, D.C. is
shave the cat! the capital of the United
States.

15. Have you ever been to 16. China is the largest

Minnesota? country in the world.

17. Superman is Susies 28. Our flag is sometimes

favorite comic book hero. called, Old Glory.

19. Dr. Johnson told Molly 20. Bill wrote a three

to drink pickle juice for page report about little
breakfast. green men from Mars.

5. Sarah read sixty 22. The children are

books before breakfast. playing soccer on the
roof.

23. My guinea pig loves 54. The snake flew to the

hot dogs and pizza. top of our maple tree.

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 25. Tommy is digging a 26. The kite got stuck in
hole to China. Marys ear.

27. Grandma took us to 18. Watch out!

ride giraffes yesterday.

29. She smiles at 30. Mrs. Clark was very

everyone she passes on surprised to see me
the street. walk on my hands to
church.

31. That dirt pile is 32. Mom was amazed

beautiful! when our dog cleaned
the garage.

57. The sweet song of the 34. The wild waves of the
rooster wakes me ocean upset the tiny
every morning. rowboat.

35. Our flag is red, white, 43. Seths new coat has a
and blue. fuzzy lining.

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 37. This new law seems 38. Penny checked out
unfair. fourteen books from the
library on Thursday.

7. The majestic redwood 40. Spreading frosting on

trees towered above the the floor makes it
tiny cabin. slippery.

41.Matt was very surprised 42. Mr. Green quickly

at his birthday party. climbed a tree when he
saw the charging rhino.

36. The candles sparkled 44. Meg eagerly agreed

brightly. to eat hot dogs for a
week.

45. The mouse quietly 46. I ate a pinecone for

crept up on the cat. breakfast yesterday.

47. Zebras always have 48. Sally ate lunch slowly.

red stripes.

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 9. May Fluffy come with 50. Texas is quite far from
us on our vacation? Maryland.

51. Play by yourself until 52. They went for

dinner time. elephant rides at 11:00.

53. It is a purple and green 24. Mary asked

spotted donkey! you to call her
Munchkin.

55. Do you want to go to 56. Mr. Rogers wants you

the circus on Thursday? to help him catch a
peacock.

33. He loved to eat pink 58. Grandma made a

cake in the bathtub. birthday mud pie for her.

Move forward three Do not move on this

spaces, then draw turn!
another card.

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 Silly Snail Answer Key

1. cat common noun

2. Washington, DC proper noun

3. key common noun

4. sweater common noun

5. read verb

6. flag common noun

7. majestic adjective

8. couch common noun

9. us pronoun

10. slippers common noun

11. Mrs. Brown proper noun

12. Mount Rushmore proper noun

13. Mom proper noun

14. dinner common noun

15. Minnesota proper noun

16. China proper noun

17. Superman proper noun

18. watch verb

19. Dr. Johnson proper noun

20. Bill proper noun

21 shoes common noun

22. are playing verb

23. loves verb

24. her pronoun

25. is digging verb

26. got verb

27. took verb

28. Old Glory proper noun

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 29. smiles verb

30. was verb

31. beautiful adjective

32. amazed adjective

33. he pronoun

34. wild adjective

35.white adjective

36. brightly adverb

37. unfair adjective

38. fourteen adjective

39. ball common noun

40. slippery adjective

41. very adverb

42. quickly adverb

43. fuzzy adjective

44. eagerly adverb

45. quietly adverb

46. yesterday adverb

47. always adverb

48. slowly adverb

49. rake common noun

50. quite adverb

51. yourself pronoun

52. they pronoun

53. it pronoun

54. flew verb

55. you pronoun

56. him pronoun

57. sweet adjective

58. her pronoun

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