The Grammar Lesson by Steve Kowit

The Grammar Lesson

by Steve Kowit

(Poetry 180, Library of Congress website)

A noun's a thing. A verb's the thing it does.

An adjective is what describes the noun.

In "The can of beets is filled with purple fuzz"

of and with are prepositions. The's

an article, a can's a noun,

a noun's a thing. A verb's the thing it does.

A can can roll - or not. What isn't was

or might be, might meaning not yet known.

"Our can of beets is filled with purple fuzz"

is present tense. While words like our and ...