Verb Definitions
This receives the action of the verb and answers the questions what? or whom?
A sentence with this type of verb has a direct object
What is transitive
What makes you consider how you relate to others and what obligations we might have to others?
What is the universe of obligation
Does this sentence have an action or linking verb?
The kitchen seems warmer with the oven on.
What is linking (the verb "seems" is a linking verb)
What is the helping verb in the following sentence?
I will have been working on this project for two months by the time it is due.
What is "will have been"
This indirectly receives the action of the verb and answers the questions to what? or to whom?
What is an indirect object
A sentence with this type of verb does not have a direct object
What is intransitive
What is Antisemitism
Does this sentence have an action or linking verb?
He thought about moving to Paris.
What is action (thought is the verb and shows a mental action)
What is the helping verb in the following sentence?
You should drink the rest of your orange juice.
This type of verb helps the main verb to express action or state of being
what is a helping verb
Is this sentence transitive or intransitive?
Sally cooked with salt
What is intransitive ("with salt" is a prepositional phrase and not a direct object. Therefore, there is no direct object, so it is intransitive)
the number of people in a cattle car when Elie and his family were sent to the concentration camp
What is 80
Does this sentence have an action or linking verb?
The students studied for the test.
What is action (studied is the verb)
What is the helping verb in the following sentence?
I am forgetting something.
This is the part of the sentence that contains the verb and anything after
What is the predicate
Is this sentence transitive or intransitive?
Yvette wrote a book.
What is transitive ("book" answers the question what? what was written? a book...therefore it is transitive)
What point of view are memoirs, like Night, written in?
What is 1st person
Does this sentence have an action or linking verb?
My grandmother is a respected doctor.
What is the helping verb in the following sentence?
You should have been listening to the professor for the code to the access the test.
what is "should have been"
This expresses physical or mental action
What is an action verb
Is this sentence transitive or intransitive?
Jackie forgot Sadie's purple leash on the shelf.
Who is Dr. Mengele
Does this sentence have an action or linking verb?
I am listening to a mystery podcast.
What is action (am listening is the whole verb phrase, am becomes a helping verb. Linking verbs are not part of action verb phrases.)
What is the helping verb in the following sentence?
How many donuts will he have eaten by the time we arrive?
What is "will have"