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Parts of Speech SHR Challenge Mystery Cache

Hidden : 2/11/2012
Difficulty:
2 out of 5
Terrain:
2 out of 5

Size: Size:   other (other)

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Geocache Description:

The cache IS at the posted coordinates, however before you seek it must complete a challenge described below.

This cache is based on Schoolhouse Rock, a 70s' series of shorts on a number of academic topics produced for children and originally aired on TV Saturday mornings.


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Oh, English majors never die, they just are edited out.

Can you identify the parts of speech in this sentence? Assuming you didn't sleep through grade school you should be able to. For those of you who weren't awake, here's how it breaks down:

Oh = interjection
English = adjective
majors = noun
never = adverb
die = verb
they = pronoun
just = adverb
are = verb
edited = verb
out = adverb

There are eight parts of speech. For this challenge you must find or have found a total of 36 caches that each use a certain part of speech in their titles.

If you require a refresher on the parts of speech a link to the Schoolhouse Rock short on each one is provided. Share these with your children, they are quite clever. (Online dictionaries are also great for determining a particular word's part of speech.)

To qualify for this challenge find:

8 caches with a noun in the title - SHR A Noun is a Person, Place, or Thing
7 caches with a verb in the title - SHR Verb: That's What Happening
6 caches with a adjective the its title - SHR Unpack Your Adjectives
5
caches with a preposition in the title - SHR Busy Prepositions
4 caches with a pronoun in the title - SHR Rufus Xavier Sarsaparilla
3 caches with a adverb in the title - SHR Lolly, Lolly, Lolly Get Your Adverbs Here
2 caches with a conjunction in the title - SHR Conjunction Junction
1 cache with a interjection in the title - This one may be tough since a word can be turned into an interjection by applying an exclamation mark, but the word, itself, might be generally used as another part of speech. For example: Awesome!, or Man, It's ColdDang, It Was Here are acceptable "interjection" caches whereas the same words in these titles: An Awesome Day, A Man from Texas, Dang Rocks are not used as interjections. - SHR Interjections!

Here are just a few rules:

  1. All cache types ( traditional, puzzle, virtual, earth, etc,) are acceptable regardless of their status (active, archived, disabled).
  2. Many caches may have one or more parts of speech in the title but a cache can only be used once, e.g., I Love Geocaching has three parts of speech but it can only be used to represent either a pronoun or a verb or a noun.
  3. A word, however, can be used more than once as long as it is used in a different title, e.g., I Love Geocaching and I Love Interlopers can both satisfy a "verb" cache, while All My Love can used as a "noun" cache.
  4. A word within a contraction can be used as if it weren't contracted and was standing alone, e.g., It's in Here (pronoun).
  5. Be careful, a word can often be used as different parts of speech, e.g., the word "that" can be used as a pronoun, an adjective, an adverb or a conjunction depending on context. When making your list, indicate the word you want to use in the title and correctly identify which part of speech you are listing it for. For example: That is My Cache (pronoun), It's That Way (adjective), or I Love You That Much (adverb).
  6. Proper nouns are acceptable as a "noun" or "adjective" cache, e.g., Welcome to Texas (noun) or Texas cache (adjective) depending on the context.
  7. Remember you need 36 total caches as delineated above. Finding the words in the titles is the easy part but you must CORRECTLY indicate its part of speech! There will be a test!

You do not need pre-approval of your list from the cache owner before seeking this cache. Complete your list, find the cache, log the find and submit your list as a bookmark list, post it in a log or e-mail it to us brooklyn51@aol.com. Please note the GC# and title, identify the word you are using in the title, and the correctly name the part of speech it represents.

For purposes of illustration we made a list from our found caches.

Additional Hints (No hints available.)