Program to generate a random sentence

so I'm creating a program that generates random sentences with structs but i need some help... I'm trying to use structs and and create 4 different groupings article, noun, verb, and preposition. Then I'm trying to use "r = rand() % ;" to randomly pick one one word from each group to make a sentence.

this is what i have

Code:

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typedef enum article
{
    the = 1, a, one, some, any
} article;


typedef enum noun
{
    boy = 1, girl, dog, town, car
} noun;


typedef enum verb
{
    drove = 1, jumped, ran, walked, skipped
} verb;


typedef enum preprositions
{
    to = 1, from, over, on
} preprositions;

typedef enum noun
{
    boy = 1, girl, dog, town, car
} noun;

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Did I do that part correctly? is there a better way?

then something like this?....

Code:

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for (i =0, i <20, i++)// i want to generate 20 random sentences
{
r= rand () % 5
printf ("%c", r->article);

r= rand () % 5
printf("%c", r->noun);

........
}

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what do i do next? what did i miss?

Are you missing the strings you want to print?

Yeah, it doesn't look like you want enums for this (and the initial 1 in the enums is wrong anyway).
You want an array of char*, like:

Code:

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char *article[] = {"a", "one", "some", "any"};

printf("%s", article[rand() % 4]);

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Quote:

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Originally Posted by oogabooga

You want an array of char*, like:

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const char*

Quote:

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Originally Posted by oogabooga

You want an array of char*, like:

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const char*

Quote:

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Originally Posted by ktype

what did i miss?

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Just the part about actually learning the C language...no harm done through - once you've grasped the concept of lookup tables you should be good.