So I'm checking over Firstborn's homework, to make sure he's actually, y'know, done it. It turns out to be just a single worksheet (he's eight, and in third grade, so the real avalanche o' homework hasn't hit yet). So I skim down it, making sure he's correctly identified the predicates in the sample sentences, and find there was only one that confused him. I have him correct that one, and then move on to the second half of the page. For this bit, he's given a set of prompts, and he's supposed to finish each sentence by adding a predicate. Only... well... I start reading them out loud:
The clucking chickens... explodid!
The baby goats... got poisened!
Barbara... is a witch.
All the elephants... went boom!
The zookeeper... lit explosive seeds.
The bears... hunted for black holes.
Those tigers... had hydregen bombs.
Many people... went to the town of silent hill.
A sleeping bat... exploded upside down.
The balloon man... flew out of the world.
Firstborn giggled as I read. I swear, I don't know where he gets this stuff. It's very mysterious.
Also, one of these days I'm going to have to write a story which includes the sentence, "Those tigers had hydrogen bombs!"
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