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Define it!
Action Verbs
Linking Verbs
Helping Verbs
Find it!
100
What is a verb?
An action word
100
Find the action verb: Steven caught the fly ball.
What is caught?
100
Find the linking verb: Callie was happy with her grade.
What is was?
100
Find the helping verb: John could play baseball.
What is could?
100
Find the verb: Frogs like to jump from pad to pad.
What is like?
200
What is a action verb?
They express physical or mental action.
200
Find the action verb: Emily thought about the question.
What is thought?
200
Find the linking verb: Frank was feeling sad about missing English class today.
What is feeling?
200
Find the linking verb: Hannah was being silly.
What is was?
200
Find the verb: Play-doh becomes useless if you leave it out too long.
What is becomes?
300
What is a linking verb?
They help make a statement by connecting the subject with the predicate.
300
Find the action verb(s): Matt was thinking about studying, but he decided not to.
What is thinking and decided?
300
Find the linking verb: Puppies are adorable when they behave.
What is are?
300
Find the linking verb(s): Mia may be tired after school today.
What is may?
300
Find the verb(s): The wind was blowing the tree roughly.
What is was and blowing?
400
What is a helping verb?
They help the main verb to express action or a state of being.
400
Find the action verb(s): Jessie imagined she would do well on her test, but she did not.
What is imagined?
400
Find the linking verb: The bananas were yummy, but then they turned brown.
What is were and turned?
400
Find the linking verb(s): Gary has become better at football.
What is has?
400
Find the verb(s): Grammar can be tough, but you know to study!
What is can, be, and know?
500
What is a subject, and what is a predicate?
A subject is the noun preforming the action. The predicate is the part of the sentence which says something about the subject.
500
Find the action verb(s): Anne did not study her grammar, so she failed the test.
What is study and failed?
500
Find the linking verb: Puppies seem friendly, while spiders look terrifying.
What is seem and look?
500
Find the helping verb(s): Zach will be at the dance, but Kelly may be running late.
What is will, may and be?
500
Find the verb(s): Hockey can be difficult if you do not practice.
What is can, be, do and practice?