The Grammaropolis Arcade
Free games, no sign-in, no waiting. The characters do the teaching, and every department has its own.
Today in Grammaropolis
advice
A change order drops: make it plural, give it an adverb, swap in a pronoun. Re-tool the sentence and roll it back onto the line.
Play →Your Passport is loading.
Parts of Speech
Every part of speech is a character. Meet all nine.
Grammar Drop
Catch the falling words, sort each to the right character, and watch them build a real sentence.
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Many Hats
One word, many hats. Send each word to the character whose job it is doing, then drop one word into two frames and watch it change its part of speech.
Play →Roger's Witness Protection
Roger goes undercover and needs the right alias. Read who the sentence is really about, then pick the pronoun that matches the antecedent so his cover holds.
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Punctuation Department
The marks that keep order on the page.
Night Shift at the Precinct
Sentences come in missing their end mark. Read the scene, then send each case to the right officer.
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Mark Patrol
A sentence comes in missing the mark inside it. Read the scene, then place the right comma, apostrophe, quotation marks, semicolon, or colon.
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Sentence Factory
Where words get built into sentences.
Sentence Surgeon
A change order drops: make it plural, give it an adverb, swap in a pronoun. Re-tool the sentence and roll it back onto the line.
Play →Garbage Sentences
Slang builds a sentence that follows every rule of grammar and still means nonsense. Catch which rule he really broke, and let the Mayor judge.
Play →Because, But, So
Every sentence here has two halves that want to be together. Read them, then pick because, but, or so by the job it does: the why, the twist, or the what happened next.
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The Writing Company
Where ideas turn into stories.
Spin a Yarn
Spin a hero, a shape, and a world into a story idea, make the words come alive, then write your story and keep it.
Play →Follow the Thread
A paragraph came apart. Put the sentences back in order, and let the transition words show you the thread that holds them together.
Play →Two Ways to Say It
The same meaning, two correct ways. The Mayor says it formal, Slang says it loose. Match the register and learn to fit your words to the moment.
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Wonderful Words
Vocabulary, meaning, and the joy of words.
Smile or Frown
Two words a turn. Same meaning is a Smile, opposite is a Frown. A daily synonym and antonym game with Slang and the Mayor.
Play →Root Builder
One root, a whole family of words. Meet a Latin or Greek root, then build every word that grows from it. Learn one root, unlock a family.
Play →Word Detective
Every case is a sentence with one mystery word. Read the clues around it, work out what it means, and crack the case before anyone hands you the definition.
Play →Slang Says
What does Slang really mean? He speaks in idioms, similes, metaphors, and adages; the Mayor takes every one of them literally. Read the scene, then pick the real meaning.
Play →Every game names what it teaches and the characters who teach it, and most name the Common Core standard they practice, so you can see the learning, not a score.