Verb Definitions
A word used to express action or being
What is a verb
When the subject of a sentence does not perform the action of the verb.
What is Passive Voice?
I had thrown the ball to Sir Anthony.
What is the preposition in this sentence?
What is "to Sir Anthony?"
You fly.
What is second person simple present.
The three simple tenses.
What are the:
1. Past
2. Present
3. Future
Also called the main verb in a sentence. It can be action or linking
What is a predicate.
When the subject performs the action of a verb.
What is Active Voice?
I had thrown the ball to Sir Anthony.
The subject in this sentence and complete predicate in this sentence.
What is I (subject) and had thrown (predicate).
It burst.
What is third person simple past.
The three compound tenses
What are the:
1. Perfect
2. Progressive
3. Perfect Progressive
Sometimes called a "helping verb." This is any verb used with the main verb.
What is an auxiliary verb?
Active Voice verbs will almost always have this type of noun following them?
What is a direct object?
I had thrown the ball to Sir Anthony.
The direct object in this sentence.
What is the ball?
They have chosen.
Third person plural present perfect tense.
Three kinds of pronouns indicate person in the:
What are the first, second or third person.
A verb that shows a relationship between the subject of a sentence and a noun, pronoun, or adjective being linked to it.
What is a linking verb
An active voice verb can never have this type of verb?
What is a linking verb?
I had thrown the ball to Sir Anthony.
This sentence is in what voice.
What is the active voice.
We are fleeing.
First person plural present progressive tense.
The 3 principal parts of a verb:
What are:
1. Present
2. Past
3. Past Participle
A verb that has no receiver of its action
What is an intransitive verb?
Action and Linking Verbs can both be in what voice?
What is passive voice?
I had thrown the ball to Sir Anthony.
This sentence is in what tense?
What is the past perfect tense.
I will have been eating.
What is the first person future perfect progressive tense?
A subjective complement follows a linking verb and can be:
What is a:
1. Noun
2. Pronoun
3. Adjective