Types of Verbs
Action
Linking
Helping
Tenses
100
This is what we call a verb when it is something that you can do
What is action verb
100
Name the action verb in the following sentence: Bob reached for his English book.
What is reached
100
Name the linking verb in the following sentence: I am tired.
What is am
100
Name the helping and main verb in the following sentence: Three students had been selected for the committee.
What is had been selected
100
Past, Present, or Future? Daryl brought the stray dog to the animal shelter.
What is past
200
This type of verb is never alone in a sentence
What is a helping verb
200
Name the action verb in the following sentence: Don't forget to study for the test tomorrow.
What is study
200
Name the linking verb in the following sentence: He was disruptive in class today.
What is was
200
Name the helping and main verb in the following sentence: He may have lost his hat because of the wind.
What is may have
200
Past, Present, or Future? I will clean the house after school.
What is future
300
This type of verb connects the subject of a sentence to information that we learn about the subject
What is a linking verb
300
Name the action verb in the following sentence: My mom made cookies during the storm.
What is made
300
Name the linking verb in the following sentence: Peshtigo seemed safe, like any other busy logging town.
What is seemed
300
Name the helping and main verb in the following sentence: Earlier, they had discovered how crabby Lucy was.
What is had discovered
300
Fill in the blank. Verb = drink. He _________ that whole gallon of milk yesterday!
What is drank
400
Sing (or say) the lyrics to one of the linking verb songs (either the one we did in class or the one that you know from previous years)
What is Am is a-r-e was were Being been smell Look taste feel Become seem appear
400
Name the action verbs in the following sentence: Two different groups of people dashed toward the river from two directions and met on a small bridge.
What are dashed and met
400
Name the linking verb in the following sentence: Our dance is right after school.
What is is
400
Name the helping and main verb in the following sentence: The classroom had become a disaster area.
What is had become
400
Fill in the blank. Verb = fly Benjamin Franklin ________ a kite during a thunderstorm.
What is flew
500
Sing (or say) the lyrics to the helping verb song
What is Helping Verbs, Helping Verbs There are 23 Am is are was and were Being Been and Be Have has had Do does did Shall will should and would There are five more helping verbs May might must can could.
500
Name the action verbs in the following sentence: "Your lousy dancing started a storm," Tommy said.
What are started and said
500
Name the linking verb(s) in the following sentence: The pizza smells good, but it does not taste good.
What is was
500
Name the helping and main verb in the following sentence: I am not walking home during a storm.
What is am walking
500
1) The letter(s) that you can usually find at the end of a regular past tense verb 2) The letter(s) that you can sometimes find at the end of a present tense verb 3) The helping verb that you find paired with a main verb in the future tense
What is 1) -ed 2) -s or -es 3) will
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