Definitions
Action Verbs
Linking Verbs
Helping Verbs
Sentences
100
Action Verb
What is a word that expresses a physical or mental activity
100

Identify the action verb in the following sentence: Kai walked to the mall.

What is walked.

100
Identify the linking verb in the following sentence: She is a very smart girl.
What is is.
100
Identify the helping verb(s) in the following sentence: Arthur is walking to the mall at five o'clock.
What is is.
100
Identify the verb(s) in the following sentence AND state which type they are: Sondra sprinted during the race.
What is sprinted (AV).
200
Linking Verb
What is a word that connects the subject to something about the subject
200

Identify the action verb in the following sentence: Ximena drove her car onto the bridge.

What is drove.

200

Identify the linking verb in the following sentence: The teacher became frustrated with his students' disrespectful behavior.

What is became.

200

Identify the helping verb(s) in the following sentence: Aiyanna was watching the football game on TV.

What is was.

200
Identify the verb(s) in the following sentence AND state which type they are: Harry tasted the spicy salsa.
What is tasted (AV).
300
Helping Verb
What is a verb that helps the main verb in a verb phrase
300

Identify the action verb in the following sentence: Bennett and Monica questioned Mr. Bonds about his fabulously decorated star shirt.

What is questioned.

Note: Decorated is an adjective as it describes shirt. 

300
Identify the linking verb in the following sentence: After the basketball game, we were sweaty.
What is were.
300
Identify the helping verb(s) in the following sentence: The dancers should have practiced their routine before the performance.
What is should and have.
300

Identify the verb(s) in the following sentence AND state which type they are: Benson seemed sick all morning.

What is seemed (LV).

400
Subject
What is what the entire sentence is about.
400

Identify the action verb in the following sentence: Ivanna and Mila were dancing the night away at the prom.

What is dancing.

400

Identify the linking verb in the following sentence and ALSO state what is being "linked": Naomi was extremely disappointed about her failing grade on the test.

What is was and Naomi is being linked to disappointed.

400
Identify the helping verb(s) in the following sentence: In the morning, Gabby could have been looking over her notes for the test.
What is could, have and been.
400
Identify the verb(s) in the following sentence AND state which type they are: Is Samantha planning on a new shirt for the dance tonight?
What is is (HV) and planning (AV).
500

Predicate

What is: What the subject is like OR what the subject is doing

500
Identify the action verb AND the subject in the following sentence: Mrs. Munday should have listened to the instructions from the policeman.
What is action = listened and subject = Mrs. Munday.
500

Identify the linking verb(s) in the following sentence and ALSO write the words that are being "linked": Yesterday, the cookies tasted delicious, but now they are moldy.

What is tasted and are. Cookies is being linked to delicious AND they is being linked to moldy.

500
Identify the helping verb(s) in the following sentence: Will you be attending the church service on Sunday?
What is will and be.
500

Identify the verb(s) in the following sentence AND state which type they are: Mika would have been sleeping if he was tired.

What is would (HV), have (HV), been (HV), sleeping (AV) and was (LV).

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