So you wanna know about nouns, you wanna know about verbs
And you probably know that there are several other types of words
So if you yearn to learn, hey, we're psyched to teach
Now listen up and let me tell you about the parts of speech.
A noun is a person or a place or at thing Like you or your school or all your bling-bling
But the tricky kinds of nouns are ideas and thoughts
Like your strength or intelligence Man there are lots of these nouns
To list them all, that would be impressive!
But to describe them, all we need are adjectives Like hot, cool, false, true, spicy, or bland
And now I think you understand
So you wanna know about nouns, you wanna know about verbs
And you probably know that there are several other types of words
So if you yearn to learn, hey, we're psyched to teach
Now listen up and let me tell you about the parts of speech.
Verbs.
That's what we call the action words Anything you can do, even if it's absurd
Whenever you eat, drink, move, think, go, or stop
Even if you just are, that's a verb that you've got
"But, Mr. Jackson, how do I describe these words?"
You use another part of speech we call adverbs Like loudly, proudly, and well, don't ask
me why, but Most of them end in -ly.
So you wanna know about nouns, you wanna know about verbs
And you probably know that there are several other types of words
So if you yearn to learn, hey, we're psyched to teach
Now listen up and let me tell you about the parts of speech.
A preposition gives location, just so you know
Whether an object is between, in, by, or below But it can also talk about time, as a matter
of fact; If something happened before this, or is gonna
happen after that
They always have a prepositional phrase it's the traditional way that every preposition
operates So just make sure that the object is there
Or else you'll never know what goes where
So you wanna know about nouns, you wanna know about verbs
And you probably know that there are several other types of words
So if you yearn to learn, hey, we're psyched to teach
Now listen up and let me tell you about the parts of speech.
A conjunction joins phrases or words together Like and, but, or, as, if, and whether
Some appear in pairs, like neither and nor, You know I'd love to list them all but there
are so many more
So let's go on to pronouns, they replace nouns So you can say "it" instead of saying the
same noun again It can be just a breeze, you see
Instead of names, saying "he" or "she"
So you wanna know
Hold up!
Almost forgot about the next one I'm speaking, of course, of the interjection:
Whoa!, yo!, yikes!, holy cow!
You know the parts of speech, well I think you do now