Verbs (main verbs, action verbs - physical v. mental, helping verbs, verb phrases, linking verbs, transitive verbs, intransitive verbs)

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How do you find an action verb

1.)Find the word in the sentence that is something someone or something can do and 2) Remember that the action can be physical or mental.

What are transitive verbs

A verb that expresses an action directed toward a person, place, or thing

What's a verb

A word that is used to express action or a state of being

What's an action verb

An action verb that expresses either physical or mental action

How is a verb classified?

As a a main or helping verb, as action or linking verbs

Examples of linking verbs

Be, being, am, is, shall be, will be, has been, have been, should be

Examples of helping verbs

Can, do , has , might, should, could, does

What's the transitive verb in this sentence? "Rossi colored the picture."

Colored

What's a physical verb

Describe specific physical actions

What's the main verb in this sentence? "Darryl eats."

Eats

What's an intransitive verb

Expresses action (or tells something about the subject) without the action passing to a receiver or object

What's the most commonly used linking verbs ?

Forms of the verb be

What's a helping verb(auxiliary verb)

Helps the main verb express action or a state of being

What's the linking verb in this sentence "Sarah is sassy."

Is

What's a linking verb

It connects the subject to a word or word group that identifies or describes the subject

A verb phrase consists of how many main verbs and how many helping verbs

One main verb and one or more helping verbs

Examples of mental action verbs

Remember, consider, think, understand, believe, know

What's the helping verb in this sentence? "Tyler should study."

Should

What's the intransitive verb in the sentence "Last Monday the sophomores talked a lot."

Talked

A transitive verb passes through the what to the what

The subject to the receiver of the action

What's a main verb?

The verb in a main clause

Examples of main verbs

Tyler studies

Where's the action verb in this sentence "Marie walked to school."

Walked

What's an example of a intransitive verb

We talked for hours.

examples of transitive verbs

When will Neil ring the bell

Examples of physical verb

Write, describe, sit, receive, arise and go

What is a mental action verb

have meanings that are related to concepts such as discovering, understanding, thinking, or planning.

Examples of action verbs

skip,smell,love,thin


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