Action Verbs
Last weekend we watched the game, played Monopoly, and ate pizza.
What are watched, played, and ate
The sand feels hot on the soles of my feet.
What is feels?
Select all the words in the verb phrase in each sentence.
Those boxes should have been put on that top shelf .
What are should have been put?
My father's cat jumps into every empty bag she finds.
present / present participle / past / past participle
What is present?
Choose the correct form of the verb to complete the sentence.
That new car cost / costed more than my grandfather paid for his house.
What is cost?
My father dove into the pool and swam from one end to the other .
What are drove, and swam?
Throwing branches of pine tree into the fire makes it smell so nice.
What is smell?
Knights must have been very hot in all that armor .
What is must have been.
Mark should have looked before he jumped into that pond.
present / present participle / past / past participle
What is past?
My grandfather often standed / stood on the balcony watching his grandchildren play in his backyard.
What is stood?
Rainbows only appear when light hits raindrops in the sky .
What are appear and hits
This boring movie seems never ending.
What is seems?
Select all the helping verbs only in each sentence
By tomorrow I will have done all my missing homework .
What is will have.
Tracy is saving money to buy a new cell phone.
present / present participle / past / past participle
What is present participle?
I hope you only spended / spent what you could afford on those DVDs.
What is spent?
You studied hard for this test, and it shows that you have learned the material well.
What are studied, shows, and learned
Hailey's bulldog's snores are the loudest I've ever heard.
What is are?
Please tell me you did do your chores before you went out to play .
What is did?
My favorite authors have written many books that I have read multiple times.
present / present participle / past / past participle
What is past participle?
My boat has springed / sprung a leak.
What is sprung?
Quit looking at me funny.
looking
That new car looks expensive but costs less than the other ones like it.
What is looks?
You should have told me that chocolate chip cookies were your favorite .
What is should have.
You should be brushing your dog's teeth every day.
What is present participle?
Just when we got to the golf course, it began/begun to rain.
What is began?