Spot the Verb
What is the verb?
After school, Marcus grabbed his backpack and headed toward the gym.
What is grabbed?
What is headed?
What tense is the verb
Every morning, Jordan walks to the corner before school
What is present tense?
Rewrite the sentence in past tense.
Elena practices her presentation after school.
What is, Elena practiced her presentation after school?
When does the action happen?
Leah checks her messages before school.
What is the present?
Which happened first?
Mia grabbed her backpack after she finished her homework.
She finished her homework first.
What are the verbs?
Nina opened her laptop and checked the assignment before dinner
What is opened? What is checked?
What is the clue word(s) that tells you when it happened
Maya finished her science project last night
What is last night?
What is past tense?
Rewrite the sentence in future tense.
Marcus finished his homework before dinner.
What is, Marcus will finish his homework before dinner?
What clue word tells you that the action happened in the past?
Devin packed his lunch before leaving for school.
What is before?
Which action happened first,
The class had started when Tyler walked into the room.
The class started first.
What is the complete verb phrase?
By the time I got to class, everyone was talking about the surprise quiz
What is "was talking"?
What is the verb tense?
By this time tomorrow, we will start our final presentations
What is future tense?
Rewrite the sentence so the action has already happened.
The students are discussing the results of the experiment.
The students discussed the results of the experiment.
Which action happened first?
By the time we arrived at the theater, the movie had already started.
What is, the the movie starting?
Fix the sentence to make the first verb present
Jordan will finish practice, he will meet his friends for dinner.
“After Jordan finishes practice, he will meet his friends for dinner.”
How many verbs are in the sentence, and what are they?
Jordan looked at the clock, grabbed his jacket, and rushed out the door.
What is looked, grabbed and rushed?
Identify verb phrases and when
Marcus is practicing his speech today because he will present it tomorrow
What is practicing? Present?
What is will present? Future?
Rewrite the sentence to happen now
After the game, the team celebrates with their families.
The team is celebrating with their families.
Identify verb phrases and tense
Ava is finishing her homework now, but she will review her notes before class tomorrow.
What is, is finishing? Present
What is, will review? Future
Which just happened
Ava was putting away her supplies when the teacher announced that the class would be moving to the library.
The teacher announced the class moving
Identify verbs and verb phrases
I had been waiting for twenty minutes when my friend finally texted me back
What is had been waiting? and texted?
Identify verb phrases and explain which happened first
I was finishing my homework when my sister asked me to help with her project
What is was finishing?
What is asked? Finishing happened first when asked occurred.
Rewrite to have happened already
When the bell rings, everyone gathers their things and heads toward the door.
When the bell rang, everyone gathered their things and headed toward the door.
Put the actions in order
Noah had packed his bag before his mom reminded him to bring his permission slip.
Noah packed his bag first
His mom reminded him after
Put the actions in order
Noah had finished setting up the game when his friends arrived and started choosing teams.