Monday, July 30, 2012

Grammatical poem

Grammatical poem

Every name is called a  noun as field and fountain, street and town.
In place of a noun the  pronoun stands as he and she clap their hands.
The  adjective describes a thing, as magic wand or bridal ring.
The  verb means action, something done, to read and write to jump and run.
How things are done the  adverbs tells us as quickly, slowly, badly or well.
Preposition shows relation as in the street or at the station.
Conjunction joins in many ways, sentences, words or phrase and phrase.
The  interjection cries out hark! I need an exclamation mark!
There are other variations of this childhood poem on the internet. Pity it doesn’t include determiners.
It’s a bit like my childhood version of parts of speech:
  • nouns are naming words
  • verbs are doing words
  • adjectives are describing words
  • adverbs tell you how and when
  • conjunctions are joining words
  • prepositions are usually little words that tell you where
  • pronouns replace nouns

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