Verbs
This type of verb comes can only be included in a sentence if there is also a direct object.
What is a transitive verb?
The sentence pattern for the following sentence: Dominic ate.
What is S VI?
The sentence part missing from the following sentence in order to make it's sentence pattern S VT IO DO: She wrote a book.
What is IO?
Predicate Adjective
Adjective
These verbs are alternatively known as 'auxiliary verbs'.
What are helping verbs?
The sentence pattern for the following sentence: She wrote her sister a book.
What is S VT IO DO?
The verb listed in the following list that is not a helping verb: do, shall, doing, must, being
What is doing?
Verb
These aptly named verbs connect the subject of a sentence to either a predicate adjective or a predicate nominative.
What are linking verbs?
The sentence pattern for the following sentence: They bought a present for their father.
What is S VT DO OP?
What is Billy ran outside for some milk?
Subject
Noun
This category of verb includes transitive and intransitive.
What are action verbs?
The sentence pattern for the following sentence: She will write them a novel.
What is S VH VT IO DO?
The other common type of linking verb besides the different forms of 'to be' and seem, become, and appear.
What are the five sense verbs?
Predicate Nominative
These eight verbs form the second row of the 23 helping verbs.
What are be, being, been, is, am, are, was, were?
The sentence pattern for the following sentence: The gorilla was eating a steak and was grumpy.
What is S VH VT VL PA?
The technical name for grammatical order of words in a sentence.
What is syntax?
The five senses
Verbs