Sorting Day at the Case-Sorting Counter
Roger has set up his newest pop-up, the Case-Sorting Counter, with three bins: subject, object, and owner. Fill in the missing pronouns and help him sort every one into the right case.
Roger is reading the bins one last time. Finish sorting and he'll call every pronoun's case back to you.
Your story is ready. Here is what Roger read.
Tap or hover over any blue-gray word to see what kind of word you chose.
Roger lined up three bins. "Bring your pronouns! will sort them by case."
A kid dumped a pile. "Action ones go in the subject bin," Roger said, dropping in. "Ones that get acted on, like , go in the object bin."
The bins overflowed and Roger sagged. "Lemme loosen up my tie. Gimme another juice box on the rocks." A platypus fanned .
Nelson marched over. "Every pronoun still needs a noun behind ." Roger nodded, because knew the rule.
A shopper held up one. "Owner bin?" "Spoken for," Roger grinned. "It's mine. I'm possessive. I admit it." He set the best aside as .
The platypus sorted fastest, so the ribbon was finally . The kid argued the gold one was , not .
By dusk the bins were clean. " sorted the whole town," Roger told Nelson, sliding a juice box.
Other kids have filled in this story too.