Verbs, Verbs, Verbs
Linking Verbs
Transitive or Intransitive?
Active or Passive
100

Name the verb:

Most people know the story of Christopher Columbus.

What is KNOW?

100

Name the linking verb:

Alan Shepard became an astronaut.

What is BECAME?

100

Name the verb and T or I:

The Soviets launched the satellite into space.

What is LAUNCHED?

Transitive

100

Name the verb and then A or P:

The astronauts left footprints on the moon.

What is LEFT?

Active

200

Name the verb and verb phrase:

He had been in Portugal for many years before moving to Spain.

What are HAD BEEN and MOVING?

200

Name the linking verb:

Shepard looked quite strange in his futuristic spacesuit.

What is  LOOKED?

200

Name the verb and T or I:

The Russians sent the first human into space in 1961.

What is SENT?

Transitive

200

Name the verb and A or P:

Samples of soil were collected by two astronauts.

What is WERE COLLECTED?

Passive

300

Name the verb phrase:

Columbus had worked as a mapmaker.

What is HAD WORKED?

300

Name the linking verb:

John Glenn was an engineering student in college.

What is WAS?

300

Name the verb and T or I:

As a child in the 1900's, Bessie Coleman lived in Texas.

What is LIVED?

Intransitive

300
Name the verb and A or P?


The astronauts were called by phone by President Richard M. Nixon during their walk.

What is WERE CALLED?

Passive

400

Name the verb phrase:

He was hoping for a grant to sail to the Far East.

What is WAS HOPING?

400

Name the linking verb:

The United States and Soviet Union were iron-willed rivals for several decades.

What is WERE?

400

Name the verb and T or I:

She realized her dream of a career in aviation.

What is REALIZED?

Transitive

400

Name the verb and A or P:

Other astronauts later visited the moon.

What is VISITED?

Active

500

Name the verb phrase:

Did you study for that Science test?

What is DID DTUDY?

500

Name the linking verb:

The rocket engines of the spacecraft Freedom 7 seemed extremely loud at takeoff.

What is SEEMED?

500

Name the verb and T or I:

She lectured about aviation to many different people.

What is LECTURED?

Transitive

500

Name the verb and A or P?

Amazing pictures were taken of the Earth and the moon by the astronauts during their space flight.

What is WERE TAKEN? 

Passive

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