I know that I should post something about Reformation Day, but there will be plenty of good posts about that elsewhere. This poem, which I found this morning in Questions You Always Wanted to Ask about English, might be of interest to a few of you, particularly homeschooling mothers or persnickety grammarians:
“Grammar in Rhyme”
A Noun’s the name of anything,
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:
Their heads, your face, its paw, his hand.
Verbs tell of something being done:
You 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!