Grammar In A Nutshell
Here is a wonderful jingle from Winifred Sackville Stoner Jr. circa 1911
Grammar In A Nutshell
The ARTICLES are oh so wee, these little words are A, AN, THE.
The NOUNS are names of anything, as BOOK or PLAYGROUNG, BALL or RING.
PRONOUNS are used for nouns instead- MY face, HER hand, YOUR feet, HIS head.
All ADJECTIVES just tell the kind, of everything that we may find.
As GOOD and BAD and SOFT and SWEET, RUDE and NAUGHTY, WISE and NEAT.
While of manner ADVERBS tell, AS SWEETLY, NEATLY, ILL or WELL.
The PREPOSITIONS help each day, IN our work or AT play.
When relationships is shown, They must do the work alone.
Good CONJUNCTIONS join together, Men AND Women, plume OR feather.
INTERJECTIONS will exclaim-OH! ALAS! AH! What a shame!
But we cannot get along, In conversation or in song,
Without the VERB, the subject’s fate, Expressing action, being state.
You ARE good and I LOVE you. Without these VERBS what would we do?
Next Installment: The Fine Art of Signing Off