Defining.
A verb that connects a verb to noun, pronoun, or adjective.
What is a linking verb?
Identify the type of verb: action, linking, or helping.
The struggle is real.
What is a linking verb?
She danced all night with the same partner.
What is danced?
I made a chocolate cake with chocolate icing.
What is "cake"?
The correct verb to complete the sentence below in the past tense.
Julie and Sam ___________ eager to pick up their pizza for Friday's dinner.
What is were?
This type of verb is used to complete the meaning of the verb more precisely.
What is a helping verb?
Identify the type of verb: action, linking, or helping.
She carved a silly face on the pumpkin.
What is an action verb?
I am going to Tuscany in the summer.
What is "am going"?
The sophomores understood the directions for the Silly Walk in Olympics.
What is the word "directions"?
The correct verb to complete the following sentence in the present tense.
John or Jack ____________always the first one to arrive to class.
What is "is"?
This type of verb shows action directed on a person or thing.
What is a transitive verb?
Identify the type of verb: action, linking, or helping.
Seamus feels certain that we have the day off on Monday.
What is a linking verb?
You will have been in school for two months at the end of October.
What is "will have been"?
The owner of the pizza shop sued the town for not completing the proper repairs on the pipes underground.
What is "the town"?
The correct verb in the past tense to complete the following sentence.
All of the students ____________late to class.
What is were?
The person or thing which a transitive verb acts upon.
What is an object or direct object?
Identify the type of verb: action, linking, or helping.
We did not choose our classes until April last year.
What is a helping verb?
We might be able to do something different for the holidays this year.
What is "might be able"?
The teacher gave the class clear instructions.
What is the word "instructions"?
Note: In this case, "the class" is the indirect object and "instructions" serves as the direct object.
Complete the following sentence with the past tense of the verb "begin."
The next day some of the snow____________ to turn brown.
What is began?
This type of verb shows simple action, not directed at a particular person or thing.
What is an intransitive verb?
Identify the verb as transitive or intransitive.
The students completed their homework on time in order to keep up with their studies.
What is transitive?
The majority of people can still identify 90% of their classmates thirty-five years after leaving school.
What is "can identify"?
Miles gave Mason a list of students involved in the after-school club.
What is a "list"?
Note: In this case, we have an indirect object Mason and list as the direct object.
Complete the following sentence with the present tense of "know".
Neither Nicole nor Julie __________where the smell in the hallway originates.
What is "knows"?