Action Verbs 1
What is the action verb?
My teacher plays the piano.
plays
What is the action verb?
The black cat jumps over a pumpkin.
Jumps
The ghost spooked the children. Which word is the past tense verb?
What is spooked?
The skeleton dances at the Halloween party. Which word is the present tense verb?
What is dances?
Tomorrow, the ghost will visit the haunted house. Which words show future tense?
What is will visit?
The witch stirs her bubbling potion. Which word tells what the witch is doing?
stirs
What is the action verb?
My friend kicked the ball.
kicked
Which is the past tense of trick-or-treat:
trick-or-treat, trick-or-treated, or will trick-or-treat?
What is trick-or-treated?
Which is present tense: howled, howls, or will howl?
What is howls?
Which shows future tense: the pumpkin glowed, the pumpkin glows, or the pumpkin will glow?
What is the pumpkin will glow?
What is the action verb?
The skeleton dances across the spooky graveyard.
Dances
What is the action verb?
My sister jumps on the bed.
jumps
Complete the sentence: Yesterday, the witch ___ her magic potion. (make)
What is made?
Complete the sentence: The witch ___ her broom every night. (ride)
What is rides?
Complete the sentence: Tonight, we ___ scary stories. (tell)
What is will tell?
What is the action verb?
Jo slipped the playground.
slipped
Find both action verbs: “The ghost floated through the hallway and scared the children.”
floated and scared
Change this sentence to past tense: “The black cat jumps over the pumpkin.”
What is “The black cat jumped over the pumpkin”?
Change this sentence to present tense: “The zombies walked down the street.”
What is “The zombies walk down the street”?
Change this sentence to future tense: “The witch stirs her bubbling potion.”
What is “The witch will stir her bubbling potion”?
Name all three action verbs: “The vampire crept into the castle, opened the door, and grabbed his cape.”
crept, opened, and grabbed
What is the action verb?
We raced around the house.
raced
Find both past tense verbs: “The monster crept through the haunted house and scared the visitors.”
What are crept and scared?
Find both present tense verbs: “The vampire flies through the sky and searches for a spooky castle.”
What are flies and searches?
Change this sentence to future tense: “Last night, the werewolf howled and the bats flew around the castle.”
What is “Tomorrow night, the werewolf will howl and the bats will fly around the castle”?