Here's an old children's rhyme about the eight parts of speech of English grammar. It gives you an idea of what grammar is about. Read and remember it.


Every name is called a noun, 
As field and mountain, street and town.

In place of noun the pronoun stands,
As he and she can clap their hands.









Most verbs mean action, something done,
To read and write, to jump and run.











The adjective describes a thing,
As magic wand or bridal ring.














How things are done done the adverbs tell,
As quickly, slowly, badly, well.









The preposition shows relation,
As in the street or at the station.












Conjunction join, in many ways, sentences, words, or phrase and phrase.
As you and I, He or his family.









The interjection cries out, "Heed!
As exclamation point must follow me!"