Verbs, Verbs, Verbs
Name the verb:
Most people know the story of Christopher Columbus.
What is KNOW?
Name the linking verb:
Alan Shepard became an astronaut.
What is BECAME?
Name the verb and T or I:
The Soviets launched the satellite into space.
What is LAUNCHED?
Transitive
Name the verb and then A or P:
The astronauts left footprints on the moon.
What is LEFT?
Active
Name the verb and verb phrase:
He had been in Portugal for many years before moving to Spain.
What are HAD BEEN and MOVING?
Name the linking verb:
Shepard looked quite strange in his futuristic spacesuit.
What is LOOKED?
Name the verb and T or I:
The Russians sent the first human into space in 1961.
What is SENT?
Transitive
Name the verb and A or P:
Samples of soil were collected by two astronauts.
What is WERE COLLECTED?
Passive
Name the verb phrase:
Columbus had worked as a mapmaker.
What is HAD WORKED?
Name the linking verb:
John Glenn was an engineering student in college.
What is WAS?
Name the verb and T or I:
As a child in the 1900's, Bessie Coleman lived in Texas.
What is LIVED?
Intransitive
The astronauts were called by phone by President Richard M. Nixon during their walk.
What is WERE CALLED?
Passive
Name the verb phrase:
He was hoping for a grant to sail to the Far East.
What is WAS HOPING?
Name the linking verb:
The United States and Soviet Union were iron-willed rivals for several decades.
What is WERE?
Name the verb and T or I:
She realized her dream of a career in aviation.
What is REALIZED?
Transitive
Name the verb and A or P:
Other astronauts later visited the moon.
What is VISITED?
Active
Name the verb phrase:
Did you study for that Science test?
What is DID DTUDY?
Name the linking verb:
The rocket engines of the spacecraft Freedom 7 seemed extremely loud at takeoff.
What is SEEMED?
Name the verb and T or I:
She lectured about aviation to many different people.
What is LECTURED?
Transitive
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