“Remember: Y’all is singular. All y’all is plural. All y’all’s is plural possessive.” - Kinky Friedman

Note: Possesives work the same for nouns and pronouns.

Possessives act as determiners before nouns. The meanings conveyed are:

• Possession - Whose book is this? Refers to possession of the book.

If pattern in a poem is “The artistic arrangement and use of the material (aural and visual) aspects of words into particular repetitive and/or serial forms as a means to structure a poem,” then variation, pattern’s partner in crime, is

Let’s take a few definitions of the word pattern to see what it typically thought of it:

1. The fifth definition from the World Book Dictionary gives us “the arrangement and use of content in particular forms, styles, etc., in a work of literature, music, etc.”

Pattern and Variation, Generally Considered

There are two factors battling for poets’ attention when they sit down to write a poem: chaos and control. Classically, these factors are attributed to Dionysus (the Dionysian or chaotic aspects) and Apollo (the Apollonian or formal aspect of poetry.) Just as the two Greek gods of poetry were Apollo and Dionysus, any great poem has elements of both chaos and control.

1. Bad or Badly?When you want to describe how you feel, you should use an adjective So you’d say, “I feel bad.” Saying “I feel badly” would be like saying you play football badly. “I feel badly” would mean that you are unable to feel, as though your hands were numb. Here are some other examples:
   • “The dog smells badly.” Here, badly means that the dog does not do a good job of smelling.

The Basic Rules: Adjectives

Adjectives modify nouns. To modify means to change in some way. For example:

• “I ate a meal.” Meal is a noun. We don’t know what kind of meal; all we know is that someone ate a meal.

How do you know when to use the indefinite articles?

“A” goes before all words that begin with consonants.

• a cat
• a dog
• a purple onion
• a buffalo
• a big apple

With one exception: Use “an” before unsounded h.

“Progressive societies outgrow institutions as children outgrow clothes.” - Henry George

Progressive - Going forward or onward; passing successively from one member of a series to the next; proceeding step by step.

Progressive tenses show the continuity of an action instead of its completion. Progressives are often helped by adverbials to show continuity.

Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion. - Ambrose Bierce

Pronoun - The part of speech that substitutes for nouns or noun phrases and designates persons or things asked for, previously specified, or understood from the context.

I think the adjective ”post-modernist” really means ”mannerist.” Books about books is fun but frivolous. - Angela Carter

Adjective - A part of speech that describes a noun or pronoun. Adjectives are usually placed just before the words they qualify.