Definitions
Action Verb
What is a word that expresses a physical or mental activity?
Identify the action verb in the following sentence: Sally walked to the mall.
What is walked?
Identify the linking verb in the following sentence: She is a very smart girl.
What is is?
Identify the helping verb(s) in the following sentence: Arthur is walking to the mall at five o'clock.
What is is?
Identify the verb(s) in the following sentence AND state which type they are: Sondra sprinted during the race.
What is sprinted (AV)?
Linking Verb
What is a word that shows a relationship between the subject and something about the subject in the predicate?
Identify the action verb in the following sentence: Sheila drove her car into the bridge.
What is drove?
Identify the linking verb in the following sentence: The teacher became frustrated with her students' grades on the test.
What is became?
Identify the helping verb(s) in the following sentence: Luke was watching the football game on TV.
What is was?
Identify the verb(s) in the following sentence AND state which type they are: Harry tasted the spicy salsa.
What is tasted (AV)?
Helping Verb
What is a verb that assists the main verb in certain tenses?
Identify the action verb in the following sentence: Alex and Marsha questioned Mr. Schlote about his fabulously decorated star shirt.
What is questioned?
Identify the linking verb in the following sentence: After the basketball game, we were sweaty.
What is were?
Identify the helping verb(s) in the following sentence: The dancers should have practiced their routine before the performance.
What is should and have?
Identify the verb(s) in the following sentence AND state which type they are: Betty seemed sick all morning.
What is seemed (LV)?
Subject
Who or what the entire sentence is about?
Identify the action verb in the following sentence: Luke and Samantha were dancing the night away at the prom.
What is dancing?
Identify the linking verb in the following sentence and ALSO state what is being "linked": Marsha was extremely upset about her failing grade on the test.
What is was and Marsha is being linked to upset.
Identify the helping verb(s) in the following sentence: In the morning, Gabby could have been looking over her notes for the test.
What is could, have and been?
Identify the verb(s) in the following sentence AND state which type they are: Is Samantha planning on a new shirt for the dance tonight?
What is is (HV) and planning (AV)?
Predicate
What the subject is doing, thinking, saying, or its state of being.
Identify the action verb AND the subject in the following sentence: Mrs. Munday should have listened to the instructions from the policeman.
What is action = listened and subject = Mrs. Munday.
Identify the linking verb(s) in the following sentence and ALSO state what is being "linked": Yesterday, the cookies tasted delicious, but now they are moldy.
What is tasted and are. Cookies is being linked to delicious AND they is being linked to moldy.
Identify the helping verb(s) in the following sentence: Will you be attending the church service on Sunday?
What is will and be?
Identify the verb(s) in the following sentence AND state which type they are: Lucas would have been sleeping if he was tired.
What is would (HV), have (HV), been (HV), sleeping (AV) and was (LV)?