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  Press the enter key to view each part of the
  review.

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Verbs

• Grade Seven

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• Types
• of
• Verbs

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Action Verbs

• Action verbs
• show action!

Ex. running
Ex. thinking
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Action Verbs

• Some action verbs
• are visible.
• That means that
• you can see
• the action
• that is happening.

Ex. dancing
Ex. reading
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Action Verbs

• Some action verbs
• are mental actions.
• This means
• we can not see
• the action happening.

Youll notice that no pictures are appearing.
Thats because mental actions can not be seen!
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Linking Verbs

• Linking verbs
• connect things
• together.
• They connect
• the subject
• of the sentence
• to a noun
• or adjective
• that comes
• after the linking verb.

Ex. The man is a doctor.
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Linking Verbs

• There are eight linking verbs!

be
being
was
been
is
were
am
are
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Verbs of Condition

• Verbs of condition
• work like linking verbs.
• Verbs of condition
• connect things
• together.
• They connect
• the subject
• of the sentence
• to a noun
• or adjective
• that comes
• after the verb of condition.

The coffee seems hot.
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Verbs of Condition

• There are thirteen verbs of condition.

become
sound
feel
taste
stay
appear
seem
remain
grow
continue
smell
turn
look
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Helping Verbs

• Helping verbs
• work with the
• main verb
• of the sentence.
• They help them.
• Helping verbs
• and main verbs
• work together
• to form
• verb phrases.

Examples of Verb Phrases
could have gone
might draw
is practicing
should listen
have seen
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Helping Verbs

• There are twenty-three helping verbs. It helps
  to learn them in groups.

be am is are was were being been
could would should
have has had
will shall
may might must can
do did does
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Transitive Verbs

• Transitive verbs take an action from a doer of
  the action to a receiver of the action.
• Ex. Mary threw the ball.
• (The action of throwing passes from
• Mary to the ball.)
• Ex. I ate soup.
• (The action of eating passes from the
• person to the soup.)

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Transitive Verbs

• Transitive verbs could have a direct object. If
  so, the sentence is written in active voice.
• Remember, a direct object is found by
• 1. Find the action verb
• 2. Ask who? of what? after it.
• V DO
• Ex. I gave a gift.

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Transitive Verbs

• Transitive verbs can also appear in sentences
  written in passive voice. Passive voice means
  the doer is not the subject of the sentence.
  Passive voice is not used in effective writing.
• Ex. The gift was given by me.

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Intransitive Verbs

• Intransitive verbs have a doer of the action, but
  nothing receives the action.
• Ex. I ran quickly.
• (The action of running has someone doing the
  action, but nothing is being run, There is no
  receiver.)

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Intransitive Verbs

• Intransitive verbs are followed by adverbs,
  prepositional phrases, or nothing at all.
• Adv
• Ex. I swam quickly.
• prep. phrase
• Ex. I swam under the water.
• Ex. I swam.

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This completes the review of verbs. Additional
review can be done in the review folders housed
in 106 and the library.