My name’s Mr. Folkes and my
students know I like to teach
Every time we make sentences
we use some parts of spee–ee–eech
Right now we will learn about
nouns and verbs and adjectives
Write down these definitions
that I am about to give
Nouns are people, places,
animals… or things
Some examples are boy, park,
hippopotamus, and ring – cha-ching
Plural nouns make one person,
place, animal, or thing more
Adding an –s or –es may change it
to three or four
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When you use a part of speech,
you should know what each is
There are many more than nouns,
verbs, and adjectives
You should know how to use them
(parts of speech)
(parts of speech)
(parts of speech)
Before you can abuse them
(parts of speech)
(parts of speech)
(parts of speech)
VERSE 2 – VERBS
You know verbs can tell what a person,
place, animal, or thing does
That’s the action. State-of-being tells
what it is or what–it–was
When you use a verb you have to
make sure that it agrees
If you don’t, you’ll say it wrong
Oh, just listen to me please
Number agreement shows
how many are doing the verb
Tense agreement tells about when it happened
(what?) the verb you heard
So if we see a sentence that has
a verb and a noun,
you should be able to point out
those two parts to me now
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VERSE 3 – ADJECTIVES
Okay, we’ve covered nouns an–and verbs
Now it’s time for adjectives
Just like with the other parts
I will tell you what one is
Adjectives tell about the nouns
They do not touch the verbs
Some are tall, happy, and fat
See? They’re all descriptive words
Normally, in English, they all come
right before the nou–ou–ouns
Green hat, smart cat, round bat
They are the green, the smart, and round
These are the three parts of speech
that we will learn for right now
If I teach you more, your brain
might explode like this: KA-BLOW!
CHORUS
BRIDGE
Parts (parts of speech)
Of (parts of speech)
Speech (parts of speech)
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