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