This type of verb is demonstratable and can be transitive or intransitive.
What is action verb?
100
Read the sentence and determine if the verb is transitive or intransitive:
Johnny Rotten and I devoured his little brother's Halloween candy.
What is transitive?
100
This is a nickname of the "to be" verbs coined by your lovely EU teacher.
What are "Hamlet" verbs?
100
Prepositions rarely stand alone. They are part of what?
What is a phrase?
100
English verbs can be conjugated and identified as either what two types?
What regular and irregular?
200
This verb transfers the action to a receiver, also called a direct object.
What is transitive verb?
200
Read the following sentence and determine if the verb is transitive or intransitive:
We sang with the band until midnight.
What is intransitive?
200
These two parts of speech follow a linking verb to complete the sentence.
What are a noun or an adjective?
200
Read the following sentence and identify the prepositional phrase(s):
Don't stand so close to me.
What is to me?
200
Three little helping verbs work with a verb to create a past participle tense. Identify at least one of the words.
What is has/have/had?
300
This type of verb does not show action but rather a state of being or a condition.
What is a linking verb?
300
Read the following sentence and determine if the verb is transitive or intransitive:
The children played Marco Polo in the neighbor's swimming pool for three hours.
What is transitive?
300
Read the following sentence and determine if the verb is indeed a linking verb. If it is, you will answer in the affirmative:
Christopher's socks smelled like rotten aged cheese mixed with slimy fish guts that were left out in the sun for six days.
What is yes? Smelled is linking.
300
Read the following sentence and identify the prepositional phrase(s):
The old jalopy sputtered around the corner and heaved itself down the alley and into the warm garage.
What are around the corner, down the alley and into the warm garage?
300
Please conjugate the following verb in its present, past and past participle form:
to sing
What are sing, sang, sung?
400
This verb is complete in itself. It doesn't transfer action to an object but is often modified with adverbs or prepositional phrases.
What is an intransitive verb?
400
You can test whether the verb is transitive or intransitive by asking one of these two questions to identify a receiver of the action.
What are What? and Who/Whom?
400
The following words are linking verbs, but one does not fit. Identify the one that is NOT a linking verb:
be, am, is, are, had, was, were, being, been, look, smell, remain, become, seem
What is had?
400
The following list has several prepositions in it, but one of them is NOT a preposition. Identify it:
to, in, around, about, near, below, for, and, beneath, from, on, by
What is and?
400
This misused verb tense sounds like nails on a chalkboard to your lovely EU teacher? It is a past participle that is frequently used as a past tense and is prevalently spoken in this state.
What is "seen" as in "I seen that."
500
This part of speech answers the questions Where? When? How? and Why?
What is an adverb?
500
This kind of sentence is ALWAYS in active voice.
What is intransitive?
500
Read the following sentence and identify all of the linking verbs in it:
It was the best of times, and it was the worst of times, but we all seemed happy most of the time.
What are was, was, and seemed?
500
This word is a common preposition, but it also part of an infinitive verb form and can be tricky if a student isn't paying attention.
What is to?
500
Read the following sentence and make an adjustment so that the tenses all agree:
We headed down to the river to catch some fish for dinner, and then we find out that the boat needed some gas so we drive to the station for gas, pop and some candy bars.