Defining Verbs
These are the verbs that tell the reader what the subject does.
What is an action verb?
The noun or pronoun that receives the action of the verb.
What is the direct object?
A verb that has a direct object.
What is a transitive verb?
This is the amount of helping verbs that make up a verb phrase.
What is one or more?
This is the tense used in the following sentence:
I am a citizen.
What is present?
These verbs that connect the subject with a word that describes it.
What is a linking verb?
The questions Whom? Or What?
What are the questions you need to ask yourself to find the direct object in a sentence?
An intransitive verb is...
What is a verb with no direct object?
This is the helping verb(s) in the following sentence:
You must not wait to study.
What is must?
The verb tense using the helping verbs has/have.
What is present perfect tense?
These types of verb help to explain when something is happening.
What is a helping verb?
All sentences must have a direct object. True or False?
What is false?
The word 'find' is the only example of this.
What is an example of a verb that is always transitive?
These three words are never verbs, even if they divide a verb phrase.
What are no, not and never?
These are the helping verbs used with future perfect tense.
What is will have or shall have?
The number of verbs that are always considered helping.
What is 23?
Direct objects are only found in sentences with this type of verb.
What are action verbs?
The type of verb being used in the following sentence:
Backing out of the lot, Mary saw a rainbow behind her car.
What is intransitive?
These are the 23 helping verbs.
What are:
Am, is, are, was, were, being, been, be, have, has, had, do, does, did, shall, should, will, would, may, might, must, can, could?
This is the verb tense being used in the following sentence:
Janice had not given the paper to her teacher yet.
What is past perfect?
This is the type of verb being used in the following sentence:
The new skates quickly became a popular item.
What is a linking verb?
The direct object in the following sentence:
Tropical seas often contain coral reefs.
What is reefs?
The type of verb being used in the following sentence:
Some snakes climb trees, however.
What is transitive?
This is the main verb in the following sentence:
We will be there tomorrow for the game.
What is be?
This is how irregular verbs are formed.
What is by changing the spelling the word?