to play, click the link below to open your Lipsonnet madlib word box. fill the corresponding blanks with words fitting the given criterion for the respective word number. when you have finished all 26 words, click the link on the word box to view the madlib. at the bottom of this page is a grammatical guide to help you with those tricky word types.

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Lipsonnet's key to grammatical success

adjective -- a word used with a noun to express a quality of that noun, i.e. good, bad, sloppy

adverb -- a word usually used to modify the sense of a verb, usually ending in 'ly', i.e. quickly, ready, seductively

noun -- a word used to designate a thing, person, place, or thought, i.e. duck, sex offender, bob dole, bob dole's gimp hand, nepal, cher's bedroom, religion

gerund -- a verbal noun, also called the dative infinitive, usually ending in 'ing', i.e. jumping, rubbing, juicing

verb, infinitive -- the verb form which merely names the action, i.e. to jump, to rub, or to juice

verb, past tense -- the verb form suggesting an event previously occured, i.e. jumped, rubbed, juiced