Mrs' Hinton 7th Grade Grier Middle School

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Mrs. Hinton7th GradeGrier Middle School
Verbs Linking Verbs Helping Verbs
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Verbs Pretest

• 1. What is an action verb?
• 2. What are some examples of a mental action
  verb?
• 3. What does a linking verb do?
• 4. Identify the most commonly used linking verb.

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Verbs Pretest

• 5. How can you test whether a verb is a linking
  verb or an action verb?
• 6. What is a helping verb?
• 7. What is an example of a helping verb?

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What is an action verb?

• It is a verb that tells what action
• someone or something is
• performing.

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Action Verbs

• Which of the following are visible action verbs?

Chews Wonder Dropped
Answer chews dropped
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Action Verbs

• Which of the following are mental action verbs?
• 1. expect scurried landed
• 2. worry eats remember
• Answers expect, worry, remember

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Action Verbs

• List the action verb in each sentence.
• The musician placed the flute in its case.
• This camera takes excellent pictures.
• The ship struck the dock.
• Answers placed, takes, struck

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Recognizing Forms of the Linking Verb be.

• Identify the form of be in each sentence.
• That purple jewel is an amethyst.
• 2. The keys have been rusty for some time now.
• Answers is have been

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List the words that are connected by the linking
verbs.

• That purple jewel is an amethyst.
• ____________________________
• Answer jewel amethyst

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List the words that are connected by the linking
verbs.

• 2. The keys have been rusty for some time now.
• ________________________
• Answers keys rusty

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List the words that are connected by the linking
verbs.

• 3. Her favorite colors are turquoise and tan.
• __________________________
• Answer colors, turquoise tan

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List the linking verb and the words that are
connected by it.

• Fred appears hungry and tired.
• __________________________
• What is the linking verb?
• What are the words connected by it?

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Fred appears hungry and tired.

• The linking verb
• Appears
• The connecting words
• Fred hungry tired

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List the linking verb and the words that are
connected by it.

• His answer seemed wrong to me.
• What is the linking verb?
• What words are connected by it?

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His answer seemed wrong to me.

• The linking verb
• seemed
• The connecting words
• Answer and wrong

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Action Verbs or Linking Verbs???

• Substitute the verb with am, is, or are for the
  verb. If the sentence makes sense, then the
  original verb is a linking verb.

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Action Verbs or Linking Verbs???

• List the verb and identify whether it is an
  action verb or a linking verb.
• The inspector sounded the alarm as a test.
• Answer sounded action

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List the verb and identify whether it is an
action verb or a linking verb.

• 2. During the drought the grass turned brown.
• verb turned linking verb

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List the verb and identify whether it is an
action verb or a linking verb

• 3. The room seems smaller now.
• Verb seems linking

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List the verb and identify whether it is an
action verb or a linking verb

• 4. That robin appears at our bird feeder often.
• That robin am, is, are at our bird feeder.
• Verb appears
• Action or linking linking verb

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Helping Verbs

• Helping verbs are added before
• the key part of the verb phrase.

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Helping Verbs

• List the complete verb phrase, including the
• HV from the following sentence, but do not
• include any of the words that may separate
• the parts of the verb phrase.
• 1. Government officials were quickly sent to the
  flood area.

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Helping Verbs

• 1. Government officials were quickly sent to the
  flood area.

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Helping Verbs

• 2. The new students should have been taken to
  meet the principal.

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Helping Verbs

• 2. The new students should have been taken to
  meet the
• principal.

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Helping Verbs

• 3. Who has been doing research on early polar
  flights?

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Helping Verbs
3. Who has been doing research on early polar
flights?
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Helping Verbs

• 4. Your mother could have certainly reached them
  by phone.

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Helping Verbs

• 4. Your mother could have certainly reached them
  by phone.

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Verbs Posttest

• 1. What is an action verb?
• 2. What are some examples of a mental action
  verb?
• 3. What does a linking verb do?
• 4. Identify the most commonly used linking verb.

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Verbs Posttest

• 5. How can you test whether a verb is a linking
  verb or an action verb?
• 6. What is a helping verb?
• 7. What is an example of a helping verb?