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Find the main verb:
The dancing bears twirled around the stage.
What is twirled?
Ask yourself- the dancing bears did what? twirled
Find the linking verb:
The cowboy was scared of the cows.
What is was?
Find the verb phrase:
I am kicking my shoes off under my desk.
What is am kicking?
Choose the correct tense and say the sentence out loud.
The bobcat's fur __________________ thicker every winter. (grow)
What us
The bobcat's fur GROWS thicker every winter.
Find the common nouns in the sentence below:
The ants raided the picnic basket
What are ants and basket?
Find the main verb:
The solar system stretches so far.
What is stretches?
The tea looks so delicious.
What is looks?
Find the verb phrase:
The lights will stay on during the game.
What is will stay?
Tomorrow, we _______________ in themed costumes in advisory. (dress)
What is
Tomorrow, we will dress in themed costumes in advisory.
Find the collective noun in the sentence below:
I asked the team to take a knee while I spoke.
What is team?
Find the main verb:
We trudged through the snow together.
What is trudged?
We did what? trudged
The twins are partners in PE.
What is are?
Find the verb phrase:
The horses were racing around the corral.
What is were racing?
Yesterday, the young girl _____________ water back from the well. (haul)
What is
Yesterday, the young girl hauled water back from the well.
Find the abstract noun:
I trust you to tell the truth.
What is truth?
Find the main verb:
After the snowfall, the trees glistened in the sunlight.
What is glistened?
The trees did what? glistened
Find the linking verbs:
One of the daughters seemed pleasant; the other was rude.
What are seemed and was?
I should have eaten earlier.
What is should have eaten?
I hope that we _______________ to the moon on commercial flights one day. (travel)
What is
I hope that we will travel to the moon on commercial flights one day.
Where does the apostrophe go?
The childrens Halloween party was on! Hooray!
What is
The children's Halloween party was on! Hooray!
children is already plural!!
Find the main verbs:
The clown tumbled, crawled and jiggled his way up the stairs.
What are tumbled, crawled and jiggled?
Sing the whole linking verb song:)
Then also remember: appears, looks, tastes, sounds, feels,
Am, is, are, was, were, been, seem, were, been seem, were, been seem, am , is , are, was, were, been, seem, being and become
Find the verb phrase:
Did you ask for help?
What is did ask?
Remember to answer the question: You did ask for help.
The lightning bug _____________ its light right on my foot last night. (shine)
What is shined or shone? Weird, eh? We will get to irregular verbs after our test next week.
Change the following three words into plural nouns. Spelling counts!
1. candy
2. brush
3. fish
What is
1. candies
2. brushes
3. fish