Verbs Are Cool

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Verbs Are Cool

• Like Mr. Randles

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Identify the Main Verb

• Ask yourself, What is the subject doing?
• Odysseus sailed from Troy to Ithaca.
• He fought many battles.
• The man skilled in all ways of contending
  blinded Polyphemus.
• Later, he tricked Circe.
• Odysseus spent seven years with Calypso.
• Poseidon smashed Odysseus boat against the
  rocks.
• Zeus threw a thunderbolt at his ships.
• His men feasted on the Helios cattle.
• Odysseus slaughtered those arrogant suitors.
• Penelope gave Odysseus a test.

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Identify the Verbs

• What word is linking the subject to the subjects
  state of existence?
• Poseidon was angry.
• Homers story is an Epic.
• War and journey are the two kinds of Epics.
• The Great Hall looked like a nightmare.
• Odysseus could be arrogant at times.
• Penelope seems like a cautious women.
• Calypso is the goddess who kept Odysseus for
  herself.

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Helping Verbs

• Mother disliked having canned spaghetti
  Wednesday........
• Mother-May, must, might
• Disliked-Do, does, did
• Having-Have, has, had
• Canned-Can, could
• Spaghetti-Should, shall
• Wednesday-Would, will
• ........-Is/are/am/were/was/be/been/being

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Underline the Verb Phrasesmr. randles is very
cool.

• Odysseus could have reached the shores of Ithaca
  earlier.
• Odysseus men should not have eaten Helios
  cattle.
• Odysseus had to be careful during his travels.
• He must have been nervous when navigating between
  Charybsdis and Scylla.