All About Verbs
Define linking/helping verbs and explain their difference
Linking and helping verbs both explain what something is, but helping verbs are always connected to an action verb
Give me an example of a count noun and a noncount noun
Answers will vary
Name this sentence pattern:
The crazy fast cheetah quickly ran through the woods and over the hedge.
S-INV
Fix the verb tense of the underlined verb in this sentence:
She had came to my birthday party last week, and bring a nice present.
Come and Brought
Make these nouns plural:
Dog
child
goose
cactus
dogs
children
geese
cacti
Define an action verb and its two-sentence pattern types
An action verb is something someone can do
The two sentence pattern types are transitive and intransitive
Which of these is a noun? Is it count or noncount?
1. Courage
2. Beautiful
3. Adamant
Courage, non-count
Name this sentence pattern:
Mr. Thompson is very kind.
S-LV-PA
What is the verb tense of this sentence:
The article has been collecting dust for years.
Present Perfect Progressive
Correct the mistaken nouns in this sentence:
She was filled with excite about she birthday party.
Excitement, her
Identify all of the verbs in this sentence and explain if they are action, linking, or helping:
Do you know where I can grab a bite of that pizza?
Do Know = Helping +Action
Can Grab = Helping + Action
Is this collective noun singular or plural?
The school of fish is chasing the seaweed.
Singular
Name this sentence pattern:
My mom baked an after-school cake for me and my siblings.
S-TRV-DO
Her cake (bake; past perfect) all day long
Had Baked
Correct the mistaken nouns in this sentence:
The teachers lounge is being remodeled this summer.
The teachers' lounge is being remodeled this summer.
Explain the perfect tenses of verbs and give an example of each one.
Past Perfect: Had blanked
Present Perfect: Have blanked
Future Perfect: Will have blanked
Identify the nouns in this sentence as collective plural, collective singular, count, and noncount:
The team are all going to get soda from the nearby gas station.
Team: Collective plural
Soda: Noncount
Station: Count
Name this sentence pattern:
The US Treasury gave the American people over 1,000,000 stimulus checks during the pandemic.
S-TRV-IO-DO
Rewrite this sentence:
He (drink, future perfect progressive) so much water after the run.
Will have been drinking
Correct the mistaken nouns in this sentence:
James car is parked next to Chris’s truck.
James' car is parked next to Chris’s truck.
Recite all six progressive verb types and give me an example for at least four of them?
Past Progressive: Was blanking
Present Progressive: is/are blanking
Future Progressive: will be blanking
Past Perfect Progressive: had been blanking
Present Perfect Progressive: have been blanking
Future Perfect Progressive: will have been blanking
How can you tell the difference?
Answers will Vary
Name all five sentence patterns
S-INV
S-TRV-DO
S-TRV-IO-DO
S-LV-PA
S-LV-PN
Identify the verb tense in this sentence and make it a perfect progressive tense instead:
She ran all the way home.
had been running
Correct the mistaken nouns in this sentence:
The childrens toys were scattered across the babysitters room.
The children's toys were scattered across the babysitter's room.