text: Three little words you often see\nAre ARTICLES: a, an, and the.\n\nA NOUN's the name of anything,\nAs: school or garden, toy, or swing.\n\nADJECTIVES tell the kind of noun,\nAs: great, small, pretty, white, or brown.\n\nVERBS tell of something being done:\nTo read, write, count, sing, jump, or run.\n\nHow things are done the ADVERBS tell,\nAs: slowly, quickly, badly, well.\n\nCONJUNCTIONS join the words together,\nAs: men and women, wind or weather.\n\nThe PREPOSITION stands before\nA noun as: in or through a door.\n\nThe INTERJECTION shows surprise\nAs: Oh, how pretty! Ah! how wise!\n\nThe whole are called the PARTS of SPEECH,\nWhich reading, writing, speaking teach.