Cheat Sheet: Grammar In Rhyme
Three little words you often see,
Are articles — a, an, and the.
A Noun’s the name of any thing,
As school, or garden, hoop, or swing,
Adjectives tell the kind of Noun,
As great, small, pretty, white, or brown.
Instead of Nouns the Pronouns stand–
Her head, his face, your arm, my hand.
Verbs tell of something to be done–
To read, count, sing, laugh, jump, or run.
How things are done, the adverbs tell,
As slowly, quickly, ill, or well.
Conjunctions join the words together–
As men and women, wind or weather.
The Preposition stands before
A Noun, as in, or through a door.
The Interjection shows surprise,
As oh! how pretty–ah! how wise.
The whole are called Nine Parts of Speech,
Which reading, writing, speaking, teach.
Source: Dr. Chase’s Recipes, 1863
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06 May 2008 at 10:04 am
Excellent tip! I can never remember what an adverb is - and if I can only remember that section of the rhyme it is worthwhile. Thanks for sharing this one.
06 May 2008 at 10:54 am
This is great - for me and my kids!
06 May 2008 at 6:07 pm
I would like to print some of your ideas and patterns but I can’t afford to print all the extra web site things that are along with them. Can you please have printer friendly options to use? Thank you!
06 May 2008 at 6:19 pm
Hi Virginia, I had to remove the printer friendly option because of a blog software update, the printer version wasn’t compatible and caused errors. I expect that to be fixed by the script writer sometime next month (I hope).
Sorry that I had to remove it for now, I just didn’t have a choice since it no longer worked.
06 May 2008 at 6:44 pm
Just copy what you want and paste it into Excel. That way you get only the area you are to copy.
06 May 2008 at 8:50 pm
If you want to print highlight the section you want, right click and “copy.” Open a bank document in Microsoft Word. At the top of the screen in the Edit menu, click “paste special.” It will open a little widow with some choices. Choose “unformatted text” and click ok. This way you can copy and print whatever text you want, but you won’t get any of the internet HTML formatting.
06 May 2008 at 8:55 pm
Virginia, I’d copy and paste what you want into a word processor, like MS Word or Notepad, and print it.
Or, you can highlight what you want to print, go to “file” on your screen (for Internet Explorer or Firefox, I’m not sure of other applications), select “print”, and when the dialog box comes up, and click the “selection” button before printing.
Those are the quickest ways to print just what you want…
06 May 2008 at 8:57 pm
Oh, and the rhyme is adorable.
I forgot to comment on that…