A POEM ABOUT "PARTS OF SPEECH" - for learning about grammar

[Joy H., Group Founder]

A POEM ABOUT "PARTS OF SPEECH" - for learning about grammar

Back in the 1940s, when I was in Jr. High School, I learned a poem similar to the ones shown in the posts below. They're about Parts of Speech . Poems like these are learning devices for young students. My notes (see below) show that this type of poem goes back to 1913!

I've never forgotten some of the lines!

[Joy H., Group Founder]

Here is a little device for remembering the parts of speech:

PARTS OF SPEECH POEM - VERSION # 1 (See #2 in a post below.)

A noun is the name of anything,
As school, or garden, hoop, or swing.
Adjectives tell the kind of noun;
As great, small, pretty, white or brown.
Conjunctions join the words together;
As, bread and butter; wind or weather.
Verbs tell of something to be done;
As sing, or play or skip, or run.
A preposition stands before
A noun; as in or through a door
How things are done the adverbs tell;
As, slowly, quickly, ill or well.
An exclamation shows surprise;
As, ah! how pretty! oh! how wise!
Three little words you often see
Are articles; a or an and the.
Instead of nouns the pronoun stands;
Your book, his work, her hat, my hand.
The whole are called nine parts of speech;
Which reading, writing, speaking, teach.

From book:
REMINISCENCES of School Life, and Hints on Teaching
By Fanny Jackson-Coppin
Philadelphia, Pa., U. S. A.
Copyright L. J. Coppin 1913
Philadelphia. Pa.
A. M. E. Book Concern
631 Pine St.
From: http://docsouth.unc.edu/jacksonc/jack...
© This work is the property of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. It may be used freely by individuals for research, teaching and personal use as long as this statement of availability is included in the text.

Below is the link to the webpage where I found the above. Unfortunately, it doesn't work anymore. I'm glad I copied and pasted the information.
http://docsouth.unc.edu/jacksonc/jack...

[Joy H., Group Founder]

"PARTS OF SPEECH" POEM - VERSION # 2

Posted by Bob [online somewhere] on Feb-26-05.
Bob wrote: "I just found this on page 35, Reminisce magazine, Jan.-Feb. 2005. The submitter did not know the author but learned it in school in 1960."

A noun is the name of anything:
Book or pencil, hoop or ring.

Instead of nouns, the pronouns stand:
Their heads, her face, its paw, his hand.

Verbs tell the tale the noun begins:
He runs, sings, dances, hops and wins.

Adjectives tell what kind of noun:
Great, small, pretty, white or brown.

How things are done the adverbs tell:
Slowly, quickly, poorly or well.

Prepositions link the noun:
We stayed at home; they went to town.

Conjunctions join the words together:
Men and women; wind or weather.

Interjections show surprise:
Oh! How pretty! Ah! How wise.

If you pair up every two stanzas, they will fit the tune of "The People on the Bus."

Below is the link to the webpage where I found the above. Unfortunately, it doesn't work anymore. I'm glad I copied and pasted the information.
http://www.proteacher.net/dcforum/gem...

[Joy H., Group Founder]

Here are the lines I never forgot (from Version #2 above):

Interjections show surprise:
Oh! How pretty! Ah! How wise!

---Joy H. :)

[Joy H., Group Founder]

PS-I just now found the following link:
http://docsouth.unc.edu/neh/jacksonc/...
Scroll down to page 87 to see the poem about Parts of Speech.

[Joy H., Group Founder]

Here is the "Parts of Speech" poem as an image:
https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/...

[Nina]

Lovely little poem. Would be fun for a teacher to read it to her English class.

[Nina]

Interesting that it goes back to 1913.

[Joy H., Group Founder]

Nina, I was amazed at how many people put various versions of the poem in images like those at the following link:
https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&a...

Here's a good one! ---> https://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=...

[Nina]

Those are fun to read. Clever.