Definitions😜
What is a verb?
What are words that describe an action, occurrence, or state of being.
The soup smells delicious. 🤤
Smells (linking verb)
“I might, no must go as well!” She said.
What type of verb is “might” and “must”?
What are modal verbs.
Everyday, she and her dog ___ to the park after school.
(Action present tense)
What is walk?
She always _____(forget) to eat breakfast before school every morning.
This type of verb describes the mental and physical actions. (think, run)
What are action verbs?
My dog is jumping with excitement for her treat. 🐕
Is (helping verb), jumping (main verb)
I believe that hard work will leave to success.
What kind of verb is “Believe”?
What are Stative Verbs?
After tomorrow, I _____________ here at this company for 5 whole months!
(3 words and 2 are helping verbs, 1 is action future tense)
What is will have worked?
Mr.Vikse was trying to count beats until someone _____ (start) _____ (shout) 6’7
What is started and shouting?
What are linking verbs?
What are the words that connects the subject to the information or details.
You could start By finishing the dishes as I told you to.
Could start (modal verb)
That beautiful cake looks so amazing!🎂
What kind of verb is “looks”?
What is a linking verb?
By the time she finally arises, we ____ already _____ our dinner. ☹️😕
(Future tense helping verb, and past tense action verb)
What is will have and eaten?
I thought they were _____ (study) until I caught them _____(binge) on Netflix🤦♀️
What are studying and bingeing?
What type of verb needs a direct object to help complete the meanings of the sentences.
What are transitive verbs?
Who has eaten all of the cupcakes I made the other day!?
Eaten (irregular verbs)
She can solve the puzzle that took me an hour to solve in half that time!
What type of verbs is “can solve”?
What is a modal(helping)verb?
The tart _____( smell/taste) out of this world, so I decided to buy 4 of them!😋🤭
What is smelled/tasted?
(The tart smelled out of this world…)
(The tart tasted out of this world…)
I think I might have ______(fail) that French test on the last question where I just _____(guess).
What is failed and guessed?
What is the difference between regular and non-regular verbs?
what are regular verbs follow regular rules for tense changes, but irregular don't follow these patterns?
The artist painted a beautiful piece, experimenting with different techniques and captured the image almost perfectly.
Painted(main action), experimenting(present tense), captured. (past tense)
The dog ran fast, and caught the big orange frisbee.
What kind of verbs is ”ran” and “caught”? (Hint: they both have more than 2)
Ran: action, irregular and intransitive
Caught: action, irregular, and transitive
These are very delicate instruments, these must be _____ with care.
(Transitive verbs past tense, look for the objects)
What is handled?
The group chat _______ (delete) by someone, before anyone could save the homework pics.
(Pass tense action verb) (hint: does it make sense with just one word?)
What is had been deleted?