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Adjectives

Adjectives describe a noun,

Words like fat, and cold, and brown.

Right before the noun they go

Like tasty cakes and pretty snow.

 

Another, Other,Others,The other, The others

Another means one extra one,

Like "Can I have another cake",

One more to add to those you have

Like, "Here's one more that you can take".

Other means what's left behind

Or shows a choice of two,

"Not that one, the other please"

The choice is up to you.

Others are a group of things

We call without the nouns,

We can say, "Give me others"

Or, say other bags , or other towns.

"The others "show the final ones,

"The other", the last one

After that there are no more

The speaker's list is done.

 

 

Few/A Few ; Little /A Little

A few and few are only used for objects you can count,

While little and a little you can use with mass amount.

Few is used with friends and cups

A few is used with men,

Little you can use with rice

And little oxygen.

A little in your hand is something you can show

While little, in reality, is almost just like "no".

A few will mean that something can be counted, can be shown,

While few is just another way to say not one is known.

 

Nouns

Names of objects are called nouns,

People, things, all countries, towns,

There is no sense with no nouns, and

The listeners won't understand.

 

Too and Very

Very is a word we use

When something is much more

In size or feeling, shape or type,

Than words it's used before.

Very big and very small,

Very slowly, too,

Very tells us how much -

An objective point of view.

But too is an opinion

Or gives reason why we act

It shows if something can't be done

Due to some other fact.

Too big for whom? For you, for me?

Too tired to work, too dark to see,

What's good for you is not for me,

Like too much sugar in your tea.

Too is what you think is true,

What's fine for me, but not for you.

 

Verbs

Verbs are words that are the sign

That action happens on the line.

The agent is the "doer" who

Has to think, or has to do.

Without a verb

The line stands still,

For nothing happens

And nothing will.