1.2 Worksheet - Parts of speech

Parts of speech worksheet

Read the poem provided below. identify the parts of speech for the words in the poem " A Psalm of life" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Write your answers in the table provided below.  Parts of speech to consider: noun, verb, adjective, adverb pronoun, conjunction, preposition and interjection. 

A Psalm of Life by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Tell me not, in mournful numbers,
Life is but an empty dream!
For the soul is dead that slumbers,
And things are not what they seem.

Life is real! Life is earnest!
And the grave is not its goal;
Dust thou art, to dust returnest,
Was not spoken of the soul.

Not enjoyment, and not sorrow,
Is our destined end or way;
But to act, that each to-morrow
Find us farther than to-day.

Art is long, and Time is fleeting,
And our hearts, though stout and brave,
Still, like muffled drums, are beating
Funeral marches to the grave.

In the world’s broad field of battle,
In the bivouac of Life,
Be not like dumb, driven cattle!
Be a hero in the strife!

Trust no Future, howe’er pleasant!
Let the dead Past bury its dead!
Act,—act in the living Present!
Heart within, and God o’erhead!

Lives of great men all remind us
We can make our lives sublime,
And, departing, leave behind us
Footprints on the sands of time;

Footprints, that perhaps another,
Sailing o’er life’s solemn main,
A forlorn and shipwrecked brother,
Seeing, shall take heart again.

Let us, then, be up and doing,
With a heart for any fate;
Still achieving, still pursuing,
Learn to labor and to wait.

Nouns	Adjectives	Pronouns	Verbs	Adverbs	Conjunctions	Interjections	Prepositions

Written Assignment: Create a story using those words.

Use the words from the table above and write a story that uses at least 20 of those words. The story can be of any topic you like, but it should have a clear middle, beginning and a end. Underline each of the words used from the list. Your story should be at least 200 words long.

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