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"Hello, there!  My name is noun...Why, you'll find me in every sentence."

"Oh, no!  Not in every sentence!  Sometimes you'll find me.  I take the place of a noun or nouns.  That makes me pretty powerful, too."

"Tsk! Tsk! You're a dull creature, Noun!  Without me and my adjective friends strutting in front of you, you are so-o-o boring."

"I feel so colorless!  So dull!  So plain!"

"Action verbs have such power.  They can give commands."

"Oh, yes, and sometimes I have other helpers-my auxiliary verbs-words like have, has, and had."

"I have the power to join two words or phrases together!  Words like and, or, and but are my kind of words."

"I have the power to tell where things are."

"Let's make up a sentence to show how we all work together."

"Well, it seems to me that each part of speech has its own special power.  Parts of speech all have to work together to make a good sentence."