Please name the verb(s) and then state whether the verb is action or linking in the blank provided.
Yo-yos worked as weapons as well as toys.
What is What is worked - action?
100
Please state the helping verb(s) and/or main verb(s).
You can find these wonderful toys almost all over the world.
What is can (helping) and find (main)?
100
State the correct form of the verb given in parenthesis:
Not much has been ( written , wrote ) about the very first kites.
What is written?
100
State the verb and then state whether it is active or passive:
Today the simplest puppets are finger puppets.
What is are and active?
100
State the correct verb given in parenthesis:
The experts ( let , leave ) the person run the train.
What is let?
200
Please name the verb(s) and then state whether the verb is action or linking in the blank provided.
Some toys, though, are even older than the yo-yo.
What is are and linking?
200
Please state the helping verb(s) and/or main verb(s).
Children have played with tops and spinners for many centuries.
What is have (helping) and played (main)?
200
State the correct form of the verb given in parenthesis:
Kites probably ( begin, began ) in China about three thousand years ago.
What is began?
200
State the verb and then state whether it is active or passive:
The puppeteer’s own hands and fingers form the puppets.
What is form and active?
200
State the correct verb given in parenthesis:
Then they ( learn , teach ) the person to build a setting.
What is teach?
300
Please name the verb(s) and then state whether the verb is action or linking in the blank provided.
Egyptian children played ball too.
What is played and action?
300
Please state the helping verb(s) and/or main verb(s).
Historians have uncovered evidence of tops in ancient Egypt.
What is have (helping) and uncovered (main)?
300
State the correct form of the verb given in parenthesis:
By 200 B.C. kites had even ( went , gone ) into battle.
What is gone?
300
State the verb and then state whether it is active or passive:
The puppet’s face is usually drawn on the person’s hands or fingers.
What is "is drawn" and passive?
300
State the correct verb given in parenthesis:
They ( set , sit ) houses, barns, and crossings all around the landscape.
What is set?
400
Please name the verb(s) and then state whether the verb is action or linking in the blank provided.
In ancient Egypt, children pulled and rolled toys from place to place.
What is pulled and rolled; action?
400
Please state the helping verb(s) and/or main verb(s).
Some tops might have appeared more than 5,000 years ago.
What is might AND have (helping) and appeared (main)?
400
State the correct form of the verb given in parenthesis:
Bamboo pipes ( rode , ridden ) up into the air on the kites.
What is rode?
400
State the verb and then state whether it is active or passive:
Hand puppets are used by both professional and amateur puppeteers.
What is "are used" and passive?
400
State the correct verb given in parenthesis:
Model mountains ( rise , raise ) dramatically into the air.
What is rise?
500
Please name the verb(s) and then state whether the verb is action or linking in the blank provided.
Toys like these remain popular today.
What is remain and linking?
500
Please state the helping verb(s) and/or main verb(s).
Their tops might have been carved from walrus tusks.
What is might AND have AND been (helping) and carved (main)?
500
State the correct form of the verb given in parenthesis:
The sound of these whistles usually ( frozen, froze ) the enemy in its tracks.
What is froze?
500
State the verb and then state whether it is active or passive:
Hand, or glove, puppets usually are topped by a hollow head.
What is "are topped" and passive?
500
State the correct verb given in parenthesis:
Valleys and rivers ( lie , lay ) between the mountains.