Action link help verbs
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This document defines and provides examples of different types of verbs: action verbs that describe actions, linking verbs that connect subjects to predicates, main verbs that show the core action in a verb phrase, and helping verbs that indicate tense in a verb phrase. Examples of each verb type are given, such as "play" for an action verb and "have" as a helping verb. Readers are prompted to think of their own examples of each verb type and verb phrases.
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Action link help verbs
- 1. Verbs: Action, Linking, Main, and Helping Ms. Ghio’s 3rd grade
- 2. Types of Verbs • Action verbs • Linking verbs • Main verbs • Helping verbs
- 3. Action Verbs • An action verb tells what people or things can do. • These are some action verbs: • play • write • scream • dance • Pick • Can you think of any?
- 4. Linking Verbs • A linking verb connects (links) the subject to words in the predicate. • These are some linking verbs: • am • is • was • were • seem
- 5. Verb Phrases: Main Verbs • A phrase is a group of words. • A verb phrase has more than one verb in it. • The Main Verb shows the action. helping verb + main verb = verb phrase has + jumped = has jumped Has jumped is the verb phrase. Jumped is the main verb in the phrase.
- 6. Verb Phrases: Helping Verbs • Helping verbs show the time of the action. – Past (was, were, has, have, had), present (am, is, are), and future (will) • It comes before the main verb in a verb phrase. • These are some helping verbs (in a verb phrase): • have skied • has studied • will make • am cooking • Can you think of some verb phrases? Which verb is the helping and which is the main verb?
- 7. Which type of verb is it? Action, Linking, Helping, Main Which type of verb is in each sentence? 1. The dog has a purple collar. 2. She is going to school on Monday. 3. My uncle will sing at mass. 4. The boy ran faster than anyone else. 5. We have played soccer for three years. 6. The race car driver drove slowly.