Action Verbs
Find the action verb: Many birds fly south for the winter.
What is fly?
Select the correct verb and tell whether it is present, past, or future:
The snow (crunch, crunches) under our feet.
What is crunches? Present
Select the correct linking verb and tell whether it is past or present:
Boston (is, are) a great city to visit.
What is...is? present
Find the main and helping verb:
Pam is helping her sister on that project.
What is... is helping?
Choose the correct verb:
It (began, begun) to snow in the evening.
What is began?
Find the action verb: The students walk to their classroom.
What is walk?
Select the correct form of the verb and tell whether it is present, past, or future:
We (traveled, will travel) to Mexico next Monday.
What is will travel? Future.
Choose the correct linking verb and tell whether it is past or present:
The party guests (was, were) hungry.
What is were? Past
Find the main and helping verb:
The game will begin soon.
What is will begin?
Choose the correct verb:
Tom had (knew, known) the correct answer.
What is known?
Find the action verb: Terry rode her bike to town.
What is rode?
Choose the correct form of the verb and tell whether it is past, present, or future:
Everyone (studyed, studied) hard for the math test.
What is studied? Past tense
Choose the correct linking verb and tell whether it is past or present:
Spring (is, are) a beautiful season.
What is ...is? Present
Find the main and helping verb:
I am enjoying the arts festival.
What is am enjoying?
Choose the correct verb:
They had (went, gone) out by the time we arrived at their house.
What is gone?
Find the action verb: Children play under the tree.
What is play?
Select the correct form of the verb and tell whether it is past, present, or future:
She (carryes, carries) her books to school.
What is carries? Present tense.
Find the linking verb:
Two people are in an elephant costume.
What is are?
Find the main and helping verb:
The audience was cheering loudly.
What is was cheering?
Choose the correct verb:
He (come, came) by while we were out.
What is came?
Find the action verb: Birds sing sweetly.
What is sing?
Choose the correct form of the verb and tell whether it is past, present, or future.
Stan (tapped, taped) his feet to the music.
What is tapped? Past tense
Find the linking verb:
Part of the robot costume was a garbage can.
What is was?
The stars were shining brightly that night.
What is were shining?
The cat had (ate, eaten) all the food.
What is eaten?