Jefferson Junior High School - Jeffersonian Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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Page 12 The Jeffersonian GRAMMAR Jamcn DeWitt Kline Grammar! Oh, that grammar! We find it all around. There's grammar in an aeroplane, there’s grammar on the ground. There's so much grammar in this world, it's everywhere we look, hile most of us have always thought we’d find it in a book. Grammar’s prettj near as old as the h.story o this earth; In fact, it is so very old we do not know its birth. The people of the long ago used grammar in their time. Just us we use it today in story and in rhyme. If it wasn’t for the grammar in the Gettysburg address Poor Lincoln would be out of luck in literature, I guess. The same with Patrick Henry when he made hi: battle cry; He wouldn’t be worth sneezing at if grammar was not by. And think of Georgie Washington, who with his bright new ax, Cut down his father’s cherry tree in just a few big hacks. What would poor George have ever done, he’d sure feel awful cheap If grammar was not near him to give him parts of speech? So if you’re going to be an author, or perhaps an “Honest Abe’’— You had better learn your grammar or your dreams will start to fade. I know it isn’t easy, so for your sake and mine, I’ve written down the “Parts of Speech;’’ they’ll help you out just fine. First of all there come the nouns. You’ll laugh at them, I know. For all they do is name things, like cow, and dish, and crow. These are just the common nouns, here’s how the propers go— Harry, John, or Dorothy, or any person’s name, you know. Next there come the adjectives. They are so very queer. For instead of naming, they describe, like beautiful. and dear. Then there come our trusty verbs, who always have the floor. DIARY OF A DESERTED SCHOOL HOUSE Priscilla Rinehart June 17: Everyone is in a bustle over what seems nothing at all. In fact, I should like to- cry because the children are so glad to lea.e me. You see. it is the last day of school until September, and the children are so excited they even write on my sides! I shall be glad to have a rest from holding these heavy, careless children inside me. July 4: Nothing exciting happened until this morning. when a crowd of children came along, shooting guns and large red things. Personally, 1 think someone must have left the doors of he insane asylum open! Hut don’t tell anyone I said so. July 5: Two men came and fixed my insides all over again. It was a very painful piocess. September 3: 1 can hardly wait until the children come back, even if they are unruly! I have been long enough without company. Hecause the sentence gathers round him like an apple round its core. As most verbs show action, they are very easily found. Like ate. sat. diank. or did or a verb phrase like has found. Next comes our good old adverb, who is like the adjective. Hut he never yet described a noun, he takes the verbs instead. Then there are conjunctions right here at our command; They make two sentences in one. The common one is and. Next comes preposition, with all his partner nouns. And all his ins and intos. he almost makes me frown. Then last comes interjection, who has the habit of exclaiming “Danger!” or “Help, I’m lost!” He does not need explaining. Now, if you wish a fortune and o’er the countryside be known Remember all your parts of speech, at least until you’re grown.

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