Action Verbs
Linking Verbs
Present Tense
Past Tense
Irregular
100
Joseph fell asleep in class.
What is fell?
100
Irianna became irate her boyfriend.
What is "became"?
100
I _______________ eating pizza.
What is (any present tense verb that fits)?
100
They rolled down the hill. (1)
What is rolled?
100
I became sick.
What is became?
200
Tiana played with her hair and put on hand-sanitizer.
What is played and put? (2)
200
Pam grew tired. She was exhausted. (2)
What is "tired and was"
200
Tony ____________ lawns every summer and ______________ snow in the winter.
What is (mows, shovels or digs?)
200
He shredded the paper and l tossed out the waste. (2)
What is shredded and tossed?
200
This morning I felt sleepy.
What is felt.
300
Josiah read a chapter, wrote down his sentences and then threw a temper tantrum.
What is read, wrote and threw? (3)
300
The play seems silly. It is an action cartoon. It sounds ridiculous.
What is "seems, is, and sounds?"
300
Aidan hugs his mother, hits his brother, and pets the cat.
What is (hugs, hit, and pets?)
300
Jack tried to scare the cat, but it hissed at him and peed on his foot.
What is (tried, peed, hissed)?
300
I grew the tomatoes and sent them to my mom. (2)
What is sent and grew?
400
Coach yelled at the team to settle down. He made them run for hours. (4)
What is yelled, settle, made, and run.
400
The night grew dark. Silence became noisy. Bats were overhead. I am scared. (4)
What is " grew, became, were, am?)
400
____________ me your money and no one __________ hurt. Do you ________________?
What is (give, gets, understand)?
400
The hunchback skidded down the banister and smacked into the beautiful girl. She slapped his face and scolded him for being so thoughtless.
What is "skidded, smacked, slapped, and scolded)?
400
Angy knew the answers and gave them to her friend.
What is knew and gave?
500
Penny waited patiently for Justin to knock on her door. They were going on a date. They planned on ice-skating at Rockefeller Center. (5)
What is waited, knock, planned, and ice-skating?
500
The pizza tasted nasty. It had too much sauce. The cheese was rotten. It smelled awful. People eating it appear ill after one slice. (5)
What is "tasted, had, was, smelled and appear"
500
Hand me a pencil so I can grade your papers. It looks like you did well. How do you think you did? (4)
What is (Hand, grade, looks, think)
500
Fill in two past tense verbs for the following sentence. He _______________ the window and the bird ___________ out.
What is "opened flew"?
500
Fill in the blank with an irregular verb. He _________________ the test and got an A.
What is took?
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