Action & Allies (verb types)
This verb links the subject soup to the description amazing in this sentence: "The soups smells amazing."
What is smells? (a linking verb)
This is the correct past tense form of the sentence:
"I walk to school."
what is "I walked to school."?
This is the correct verb to complete the sentence: "The dog ____ fast" in the present tense.
What is "runs"?
This is the simple past tense of the irregular verb "go".
What is "went".
This verb completes the sentence in the present tense: "She ____ excited about the trip."
What is "is"?
This helping (linking) verb appears in the sentence: "The students are finishing their essays."
What is are?
This is the correct future tense form of the sentence:
"She helps her brother."
What is "She will help her brother."?
This is the correct verb to complete the sentence:
"The students ______ excited", in the past tense.
What is "were"?
This irregular verb changes from "eat" in the present tense to this word in the simple past tense.
What is "ate"?
In the sentence "The soup tastes salty." this verb links the subject to a description.
What is "tastes"?
This is the complete verb phrase in the sentence "I should have been studying for the test."
what is should have been studying?
This is the verb tense used in this sentence:
"They were playing soccer."
What is past progressive tense?
In the sentence:
"The box of crayons was missing.", these are the subject and verb.
What are "box" and "was"?
This is the past participle tense of the irregular verb "write".
What is "written".
This verb of being agrees with the plural subject in the sentence:
"The students ____ ready to begin."
What is "were"?
This type of verb connects the subject to more information about the subject, rather than showing action.
What is helping or linking verb?
This is the correct simple past tense of this sentence:
"Earlier today she writes her report and turns it in."
What is: "Earlier today she wrote her report and turned it in".?
This corrected sentence fixes the subject-verb agreement error:
"The group of athletes are practicing."
What is "The group of athletes IS practicing."?
This complete verb phrase correctly uses an irregular verb (run/ran) in the past participle tense.
"She ________ the race before it started."
What is "had run"?
This verb of being appears in the sentence:
"They were nervous before the performance."
What is "were"?
This verb is an example: "The sky grew dark", and "The children grow tomatoes."
What is an irregular verb?
This is the present perfect form of the sentence:
"They finish the project."
What is "They have finished the project."?
This is the correct past tense verb in the sentence: "Neither the teachers nor the principal ______ available.:
What is "was"?
This is the complete verb phrase in the sentence:
"By noon, the team will have been practicing for three hours."
What is "will have been practicing"?
This verb of being correctly completes the sentence using past tense and agrees with the plural subject: "The results _____ unexpected."
What is "were"?