Transitive/Intransitive
A verb that expresses an action from a doer to a receiver.
What is a Transitive Verb?
What is the Past and Past Participle of GO
Went
Gone
What is a linking verb?
This verb links the subject of a sentence with a subject compliment.
What is a linking verb?
There are ________ basic forms of all verbs.
4
Identify the Verb Phrase in the sentence and share which is the helping verb and which is the main verb: This city can be a very interesting place.
Helping Verb: Can
Main Verb: Be
Is this sentence showing a Transitive or Intransitive Verb: Each student brough a bag lunch for the field trip.
Transitive
What is the Past and Past Participle of Eat
Ate
Eaten
This and its forms is the most common linking verb
What is "be"
Present, Past, Past Participle and Present Participle
Identify the Verb Phrase in the sentence and share which is the helping verb and which is the main verb: Have you ever read this book?
Helping Verb: Have
Main Verb: Read
A verb that whose action has no reciever.
What is the Past and Past Participle of Bring
Brought
Brought
Past and Present Participles Forms are written with two verbs, a ___________ verb and the main verb
Helping
Identify the Verb Phrase in the sentence and share which is the helping verb and which is the main verb: We should climb to the top of the hill.
Helping Verb: should
Main Verb: climb
Identify the verb and the doer and the receiver (if there is one) in this sentence and share if the verb is Transitive or Intransitive: They arrived at the concert early.
Verb: Arrived
Doer: They
Receiver: None
Verb: Intransitive
What is the Past and Past Participle of Drive
Drove
Driven
Locate the linking verb, the subject and its linked subject complement in the following sentence:
"The employees were tired after their long shift."
LV: were
Subject: Employees
Subject Complement: tired
Past Participle
Identify the Verb Phrase in the sentence and share which is the helping verb and which is the main verb: You may view the show from the landing.
Helping Verb: may
Main Verb: view
Identify the verb and the doer and the receiver (if there is one) in this sentence and share if the verb is Transitive or Intransitive: The waves at the beach gave the surfers trouble while paddling out.
Verb: gave
Doer: waves
Receiver: trouble
Verb: Transitive
What is the Past and Past Participle of Arise
Arose
Arisen
Locate the linking verb, the subject and its linked subject complement in the following sentence:
"From our viewpoint at ground level, the space shuttle looked huge."
LV: Looked
Subject: space shuttle
Subject Complement: huge
What form of the verb does this sentence show: Several rare birds live in the trees in my yard.
Present
Identify the Verb Phrase in the sentence and share which is the helping verb and which is the main verb: Guides were showing people around school.
Helping Verb: were
Main Verb: Showing