Definitions
Identify the action verb in the following sentence: The soccer team practiced after school.
What is practiced.
Identify the linking verb in the following sentence: The cookies stayed warm on the baking tray.
What is stayed.
Mr. Piller's favorite author is Shakespeare.
Shakespeare (PN)
The teacher kept calm during the fire drill.
Calm (PA)
Linking Verb
What is a word that connects the subject to a PN or PA and expresses a state of being
Identify the action verb in the following sentence: Mr. Piller drove his car to the Williamsburg Trader Joe's.
What is drove.
Identify the linking verb in the following sentence: The teacher was impressed with his students' grades on the test.
What is was.
Mr. Wekilsky was the football coach for our school.
coach (PN)
This historical building has been a theater, schoolhouse, and a shopping mall
What is theater, schoolhouse, shopping mall (Compound PN).
Subject
The subject of a sentence is the person or thing doing the action or being described.
Identify the action verb in the following sentence: John and Cindy questioned Mr. Piller about his Tie-dyed Virginia Football shirt.
What is questioned.
Identify the linking verb in the following sentence: After the squash match, we were sweaty.
What is were.
Mr. Meissner is knowledgeable about historical events
What is knowledgeable (PA)
The students remained studious throughout the classroom.
What is studious (PA).
Predicate Nominative
What is a noun or pronoun that comes after a linking verb and identify, renames, or specifies a subject of a sentence
Identify the action verb in the following sentence: The teacher collected everyone’s homework.
What is collected.
Identify the linking verb in the following sentence and ALSO state what is being "linked": Cindy was extremely upset about her failing grade on the test.
What is was and Cindy is being linked to upset.
The students looked disheveled after they took three pages of notes.
disheveled (PA)
The chips tasted bland without any salsa or dip.
What is bland (PA)
Predicate Adjective
What is an adjective that follows a linking verb and describes the subject.
Identify the action verb AND the subject in the following sentence: The baby laughed at the funny noise.
What is action = laughed and subject = the baby
Identify the linking verb(s) in the following sentence and ALSO state what is 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.
The test was strenuous and difficult if you did not study.
What is strenuous and difficult. (Compound PA)
The hardest part of the race was the final hill.