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The Eight Parts of Speech
All names of persons, places, ideas, and things
Are nouns, such as Caesar, home, love and rings.
Pronouns are used in place of nouns:
I think, she sings, they work, he frowns.
When the kind you wish to state
Use an adjective, such as “great!”
Next we have the verbs which tell
Of action, being, state as well.
“To work,” “to see,” “achieve,” and “curb,”
Each one of these is called a verb.
But if of manner you would tell
Use adverbs such as “slowly,” “well”
To find an adverb, this test try:
As how, when, where, why.
Prepositions show relation
As “with respect” and “in our nation”
Conjunctions, as their name implies,
Are joining words, they are the ties
That bind together “day and night”
“Calm but cold,” “dull or bright”
Interjections show surprise
As “oh,” “alas,” “ah me,” “thou wise!”
Thus briefly does this jingle state
The parts of speech which total eight.