Verbs
What is the function of an action verb?
To state what the noun is doing.
Name the simple tenses.
1) Simple Present
2) Simple Past
3) Simple Future
What differentiates regular and irregular verbs?
Regular verbs have past forms that end in -d or -ed.
Irregular verbs do not follow those rules.
What are three verbal types?
1) Gerund, 2) Participle, 3) Infinitive
True or False: Singular nouns always need singular verbs.
True
What is the function of a linking verb?
Connect the subject with a word that describes or renames the subject.
How do you create the perfect tenses?
has, have, had + past participle
What are the three principal forms of irregular verbs?
Base form, past form, and past participle.
Which of the verbals can act as a noun?
Gerunds
Choose the correct verb:
(Do / Does) the boys have a snack after school?
"Do"
What are the helping verbs in this sentence?
"I promise I did not make that spill!"
"did make"
excludes "not"
What is the tense of the following verb phrase?
"will have worked"
Future Perfect
Which one of the following verbs is irregular?
Buy, Care, Love
(buy - bought - bought)
Identify any verbals in the following sentence: "British people prefer driving on the left."
"Driving" is a gerund.
Choose the correct verb:
Either James or Nora (is / are) bringing cupcakes to the birthday party.
"is"
Name the "to be" verbs.
am, is, are, was, were, be, being, been
True or False: The following sentence is in past perfect tense.
"My friends have finished the cake."
False
The verb "have finished" is present perfect.
"Had finished" would be the past perfect tense.
Which among the verbs below is the regular?
Shut, Cheer, Seek
Cheer
(cheer - cheered - cheered)
Identify any verbals in the following sentence:
"The Rivera Family offered to watch their neighbor’s dog for the whole week."
"To watch" is an infinitive.
True or False: Compound nouns can have a singular noun and a plural noun. If so, the verb must agree with the first noun.
False.
The verb must agree with the noun that is closest to it in the sentence.
What is the linking verb in this sentence?
He and I were shopping at the same store.
"were"
What are the simple present, simple past, and present perfect forms of the verb "adapt"?
adapt
adapted
has/have adapted
What are the the three forms of the verb "light"?
light - lit - lit
Identify any verbals in the following sentence: "The running water in the fountain made the boy have to go to the bathroom."
"Running" is a participle. "To go" is an infinitive, and "to go to the bathroom" is an infinitive phrase.
Does the following sentence have incorrect agreement?
Neither crows nor ravens appear in Puerto Rican fauna.
The subject verb agreement is correct.