The verb in the following sentence:
John seems tired today.
What is seems?
100
Identify the action verb in the following sentence:
The big bear hibernates in the winter.
What is hibernate?
100
Identify the helping verb and the verb phrase in the following sentence:
The Declaration of Independence was adopted by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776.
What is was and was adopted?
100
Identify the linking verb in the following sentence:
Columbus is the capital of Ohio.
What is is?
100
Name five helping verbs.
What is may, might, must, be, being, been, am, are, is, was, were, do, does, did, should, could, would, have, had, has, will, can, shall.
200
The verb and the type of verb it is...
The snake swiftly slithered away.
What is slithered, an action verb?
200
Identify the action verb in the following sentence:
The audience stood during the presentation.
What is stood?
200
Identify the helping verb and the verb phrase in the following sentence:
Tomorrow, we will light the candles on my birthday cake.
What is will and will light?
200
A linking verb connects the _______ with the noun.
What is subject?
200
Sometimes linking verbs are called___________ verbs.
What is state-of-being?
300
There are two verbs. We may open the gifts.
What are may and open?
300
Identify the action verb in the following sentence:
I went to the store after the party.
What is went?
300
Identify the verb phrase in the following sentence:
Can everyone help clean the playroom?
What is can help?
300
Identify the linking verb in the following sentence:
This cannot be!
What is can?
300
Verbs can be in the past, present and ________ tenses.
What is future?
400
The verb and the type of verb in the following sentence:
Katie felt fine after the race.
What is felt, a linking verb?
400
Identify the action verb in the following sentence:
Nick remembers his first football game.
What is remembers?
400
The main verb and its helping verb or verbs are called a ________?
What is verb phrase?
400
Identify the linking verb in the following sentence:
This pot roast tastes amazing.
What is tastes?
400
Identify the verb and its tense in the following sentence:
Last night, the dog barked for five hours.
What is barked and past tense?
500
After last month, Henry was not a member of the book club.
What is was, an action verb?
500
An action verb is a verb that expresses ____________ or________________ action.
What is physical or mental?
500
Another name for a helping verb.
What is an auxiliary verb?
500
Name two of the most common forms of a linking verb.
What is is, am, were, was, are, be, being, been.
500
One acrobat SWINGS above the crowd. But, five acrobats _________ above the crowd.