What is a Verb?
Action Verbs & Objects
Linking Verbs & Predicate Words
Principal Parts of Verbs
Irregular Verbs
100
Give the definition of a verb
What is a word used to express action, a condition, or a state of being
100
Explain what a direct object is.
What is a noun or pronoun that names the receiver of an action.
100
Identify the linking verbs in the following two sentences. I am a very funny person. A movie is a complicated project.
What is "am" and "is"
100
Every verb has four basic forms, called its principal parts: the present, the present participle, the past, and... Name the fourth form
What is past participle
100
Explain what an irregular verb is.
What is a verb whose past and past participle forms are not made by adding -ed or -d
200
The two main types of verbs
What are action verbs and linking verbs
200
Explain what an indirect object is.
Tells to what or whom or for what or whom an action is done.
200
Explain what a predicate adjective is.
What is an adjective that follows a linking verb and modifies the subject.
200
Explain what a regular verb is.
What is a verb whose past and past participle are formed by adding -ed or -d to the present.
200
What is the past tense of the following: Cut Leave
What is cut and left
300
Identify the verb phrase in the following sentence We have watched the movie Shrek three times.
What is have watched
300
Explain transitive and intransitive verbs
Transitive verbs has a direct object Intransitive verb does not have a direct object
300
What is a predicate noun?
What is a noun that follows a linking verb and identifies, renames, or defines the subject.
300
Name the verbs/verb phrases and identify them as present or present participle. Student people perform dangerous scenes. The hero of the movie is leaping from a galloping horse.
What is perform= present, is leaping= present participle
300
Choose the correct form of the verbs in parentheses. Movies can convince us that we have (saw, seen) real events on screen. Directors (made, maked) impossible scenes look real.
What is seen, made
400
Identify the verbs or verb phrases in the following two sentences. The boy takes his sister to the zoo. The little girl has listened to the song ten times in a row.
What is takes and has listened.
400
Identify the direct and indirect objects in the following sentences. A movie crew includes many people. They show the director the special effects.
What is people = DO Director = IO, special effects= DO
400
Identify the linking verb and predicate adjective or predicate noun in the following sentences. Some people seem very friendly. The movie Despicable Me was a hit.
What is seem= LV, friendly= PA was= LV, hit = PN
400
Name the verbs/verb phrases and identify them as present, present participle, past, or past participle. Photography has existed for only about 150 years. Readers are still enjoying these photos today.
What is has existed= past participle are enjoying = present participle
400
Choose the correct form of the verbs in parentheses. The brothers had filmed as workers (teared, tore) down a wall. Often filmmakers have (shrank, shrunk) huge monsters to miniature size for filming.
What is tore, shrunk
500
Identify the verbs or verb phrases in the following two sentences. I will be going to work tomorrow. I do not need help with that.
What is will be going and do need.
500
Identify the direct and indirect objects in the sentences. The assistant gives the director the film footage. The crew also includes wardrobe assistants.
What is director= IO, footage = DO assistants = DO
500
Identify the linking verb and predicate adjective or predicate noun in the following sentences. The aliens were a mystery to the people. The child seemed afraid of the dog at first.
What is were= LV, mystery = PN seemed= LV, afraid = PA
500
Name the verbs/verb phrases and identify them as present, present participle, past, or past participle. In 1877 he arranged 12 cameras in a row. A real horse never assumes a rocking horse position.
What is arranged= past assumes = present
500
What is the past participle form of the verb keep? What is the past tense of the word go?
What is has kept, went
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