Verbs
Adjectives
Definitions
Examples 1
Examples 2
100
It tells what the subject is doing.
What is an action verb?
100
comes before words that begin with consonant sounds
What is a?
100
A, an and the
What are articles?
100
Ran, danced, drove
What are action verbs?
100
smell, sound, appear, become, is, are
What are examples of linking verbs?
200
It is a word that expresses action or being
What is a verb?
200
Comes before words that begin with vowel sounds
What is an?
200
a verb or verb phrase that links the subject with another word in the sentence
What is a linking verb?
200
The verb in this sentence "I drove my car."
What is a transitive verb?
200
purple, large, plump,
What are examples of adjectives?
300
A verb that has an object
What is a transitive verb?
300
These adjectives often contain hyphens
What are compound adjectives?
300
A word that describes a noun or pronoun
What is an adjective?
300
The verb in this sentence, "The man ran down the street."
What is intransitive?
300
French, Alaskan, and English
What examples of proper adjectives?
400
A verb that does not have an object
What is an intransitive verb?
400
These adjectives usually come from place names
What is proper adjectives?
400
Begins with a capital letter and describes a noun or pronoun
What is a proper adjective?
400
can, could, has, do, may, must, might
What are examples of helping verbs?
400
well-dressed and blue-eyed
What examples of compound adjectives?
500
You ask what? or whom? after reading the verb.
What is how you tell if a verb has an object?
500
An article that can come before a consonant or vowel sound
What is the?
500
CHAD B SWIM
What is the mnemonic device that helps us remember helping verbs
500
Adjectives called articles
What are a, an, the?
500
have driven, did run
What is are examples of verb phrases?
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