Identifying Verbs
Identifying Verb Phrases - Helping & Main Verbs
Using Irregular Verbs
mixed verbs
Choosing the correct verb
100
Please name the verb(s) and then state whether the verb is action or linking in the blank provided. Yo-yos worked as weapons as well as toys.
What is What is worked - action?
100
Please state the helping verb(s) and/or main verb(s). You can find these wonderful toys almost all over the world.
What is can (helping) and find (main)?
100
State the correct form of the verb given in parenthesis: Not much has been ( written , wrote ) about the very first kites.
What is written?
100

My siblings and I _______ the words to our grandmother's favorite poem, "My Heart Leaps Up" by William Wordsworth, so we can recite it during her eightieth birthday celebration.

are memorizing 

100
State the correct verb given in parenthesis: The experts ( let , leave ) the person run the train.
What is let?
200
Please name the verb(s) and then state whether the verb is action or linking in the blank provided. Some toys, though, are even older than the yo-yo.
What is are and linking?
200
Please state the helping verb(s) and/or main verb(s). Children have played with tops and spinners for many centuries.
What is have (helping) and played (main)?
200
State the correct form of the verb given in parenthesis: Kites probably ( begin, began ) in China about three thousand years ago.
What is began?
200

I ______ an application for the position of administrative assistant at the arts council, and I will email you a list of references tomorrow.

am submit

200
State the correct verb given in parenthesis: Then they ( learn , teach ) the person to build a setting.
What is teach?
300
Please name the verb(s) and then state whether the verb is action or linking in the blank provided. Egyptian children played ball too.
What is played and action?
300
Please state the helping verb(s) and/or main verb(s). Historians have uncovered evidence of tops in ancient Egypt.
What is have (helping) and uncovered (main)?
300
State the correct form of the verb given in parenthesis: By 200 B.C. kites had even ( went , gone ) into battle.
What is gone?
300

Miles Davis ____ in New York and pursuing a career as a jazz musician when he began playing at nightly jam sessions in some of Harlem's most popular night clubs.

was living 

300
State the correct verb given in parenthesis: They ( set , sit ) houses, barns, and crossings all around the landscape.
What is set?
400
Please name the verb(s) and then state whether the verb is action or linking in the blank provided. In ancient Egypt, children pulled and rolled toys from place to place.
What is pulled and rolled; action?
400
Please state the helping verb(s) and/or main verb(s). Some tops might have appeared more than 5,000 years ago.
What is might AND have (helping) and appeared (main)?
400
State the correct form of the verb given in parenthesis: Bamboo pipes ( rode , ridden ) up into the air on the kites.
What is rode?
400

We ___ the finishing touches on the advertisement for the Fall Harvest Festival when the organizers called to say that, regrettably, the dates had changed.

Got it

were putting 

400
State the correct verb given in parenthesis: Model mountains ( rise , raise ) dramatically into the air.
What is rise?
500
Please name the verb(s) and then state whether the verb is action or linking in the blank provided. Toys like these remain popular today.
What is remain and linking?
500
Please state the helping verb(s) and/or main verb(s). Their tops might have been carved from walrus tusks.
What is might AND have AND been (helping) and carved (main)?
500
State the correct form of the verb given in parenthesis: The sound of these whistles usually ( frozen, froze ) the enemy in its tracks.
What is froze?
500

Eddie and Katie ____ ____ with their parents on the American River when they spotted a red-shouldered hawk.

were rafting 

500
State the correct verb given in parenthesis: Valleys and rivers ( lie , lay ) between the mountains.
What is lie?
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