When I think about parts of speech, I go back to my childhood definitions, such as a ‘noun is a naming word’. I had never come across grammatical poems until someone sent me the following one.

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 slightly different variations of this poem on the internet.

Posted on August 6th, 2009 by admin
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