Subjects
Action Verbs
Linking Verbs
Helping Verbs
Gerunds and Infinitives
100
Identify the subject in the following sentence: Howard likes ice cream.
What is Howard.
100
Identify the verb in the following sentence: Tom retrieved Harry and Jane from the airport.
What is retrieved.
100
Identify the linking verb in the following sentence: She is so smart.
What is is.
100
Identify the helping verb in the following sentence: So many people are going to the county fair.
What is are.
100
Identify the gerund in the following sentence: Swimming reduces stress.
What is swimming.
200
Identify the subject in the following sentence: Get away from me!
What is (You) the silent or understood subject in a command or imperative sentence.
200
Identify the verb in the following sentence: Give me the remote!
What is give.
200
Identify the linking verb in the following sentence: He became very tired.
What is became.
200
Identify the helping verbs in the following sentence: Harold had been thinking about his future.
What is had been.
200
Identify the verb infinitive in the following sentence: I have learned to love.
What is to love.
300
Identify the subject in the following sentence: Walking leads to good health.
What is Walking.
300
Identify the verb in the following sentence: Too many people helping in the kitchen spoils the cake.
What is spoils.
300
Identify the adjective the linking verb links to in the following sentence: Tammy had been inconsolable after the funeral.
What is inconsolable.
300
Identify the action verb helped by the helping verb in the following sentence: The chihuahua was yapping all morning.
What is yapping.
300
Is the following -ing verb a gerund or part of a verb phrase? How many running people are needed for a marathon?
What is gerund functioning as an adjective.
400
Identify the subject in the following sentence: To love is important.
What is to love.
400
Identify the verb in the following sentence: Whatever you hear, stay here!
What is stay.
400
Identify the adjective that the linking verb links to in the following sentence: Tommy seemed so incredibly useful as a forest guide.
What is useful.
400
Identify the action verb helped by the helping verb in the following sentence: Daisy almost never was seen in blue.
What is seen.
400
Is the "to" group of words an infinitive used as the subject of the following sentence? To err is human.
What is yes. "To err" is the subject of the sentence.
500
Identify the subjects in the following sentence: Because Harry and Jane flew here, Tom picked them up.
What is Tom
500
Identify the verbs in the following sentence: All crowds cheer and scream when a concert begins.
What is cheer and scream.
500
Identify the linking verbs and the adjectives they link to in the following sentence: We had become more concerned and quiet as the day continued.
What is had become and concerned and quiet.
500
Identify the helping verbs and action verbs in the following sentence: The mayor should and will have and present evidence to clear her name.
What is should and will...have and present.
500
Identify all gerunds and verb infinitives in the following sentence: The key to knowing how to cheat is best learned by arriving at the casino early.
What is to knowing (gerund) to cheat (infinitive) arriving (gerund).
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