Adjectives and Adverbs comical poem number 514 by Angela Lansbury

Stop. Wrong Way sign in German from motorway. 

 

An adjective and an adverb

They used to puzzle me

It's simple, both words start with 'add'

It's very plain to see

An adjective describes a noun

A person, place or thing

But Hemingway, a journalist

Was taught, 'Do no such thing

'Don't add emotion to writing, 

Newspapers just state fact

Don't say dreadful, tragic, shocking

Let the reader think that.'

An adverb should describe a verb

Please, teacher, what's a verb?

A verb is called a doing word

Or so I've always heard

An adverb adds letters l y

So make drily from dry

You should make quickly out of quick

But not sickly from sick.

A comic's a funny person

Or a picture story

Comical's the adjective, don't

Be economical

Poets claim poet's license

Break punctuation rules

But if they can't get grammar right

The risk looking like fools

I'm a poet and a teacher

Which hat should I wear here?

Teachers earn more than poets do

So henceforth I'll be clear

I must change titles from comic

To comical, to be right

But changing five hundred titles

Will take me half the night

So I shall leave the early ones

Although you won't rate them

But it does have one advantage

Early errors date them.

-ends-

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