Verbs

Principal Parts

100

What is a verb?

What is a part of speech that shows action or state of being.

200

What is the difference between a verb phrase and phrasal verb?

What is a verb phrase is two or more verbs that work together and phrasal verbs are a verb with a preposition working as a package deal. 

300

What is the difference between rise and rose?

What is raise will always have a direct object.

400

Is this sentence correct? If not, how do you fix it. She usually lays there in the sun.

What is wrong. She usually lies there in the sun.

500

What is the past tense and past participle of to lie?

What is lay and lain.

Transitive and Intransitive

100

What is a transitive verb?

What is a verb that expresses an action passed from doer and receiver. 

200

What usually, USUALLY, follows an intransitive verb?

What is a prepositional phrase.

300

Is this sentence, Hercules fought a huge lion, transitive or intransitive? 

What is transitive?

400

What is an example of a phrasal verb?

Answers will vary.

500

What is the verb in this sentence and is it intransitive or transitive, Brad Pitt played the Greek hero Achilles in one movie.

What is played and transitive.

Simple, Progressive, Perfect

100

Why do we use the progressive tense?

What is when talking about a continuing action.

200

When do we use the perfect tense?

What is talking about two events. The first event must be completed before the second event.

300

How do we form the progressive tense?

What is an auxiliary verb of to be and the present participle of the main verb.

400

How do we form the perfect tense?

What is auxiliary verb of have and the past participle of the main verb.

500

What word do you need between the auxiliary verb and main verb in order to form the passive perfect tense?

What is been.

Linking Verbs

100

What is the function of a linking verb?

What is connecting subject and subject complements?

200

Do Linking Verbs show action or state of being

What is state of being

300

In this sentence, Many people feel proud of their heritage, is the verb a linking verb or an action verb?

What is linking verb?

400

What three parts of speech can a subject complement be

What is noun, pronoun, adjective.

500

Can linking verbs also be action verbs

What is yes, but action verbs do not link subjects with their complements

Active and Passive

100

When a transitive verb is in the active voice, the subject is the...?

What is the doer of the action.

200

In the passive voice the subject is the...? 

What is the receiver of the action.

300

 How do you form the passive voice?

What is an auxiliary verb and the past participle tense of the main verb.

400

Is the following sentence active or passive: Every house on the street was painted a different color. 

What is passive.

500

Is the following sentence passive or active: Our respect for one another must not be lost despite our differences. How do you change it?

What is passive and we must not lose respect for one another despite our differences.