verbs by ellyn ball and lilly jenkins. verbs who can recall what a verb does?
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VerbsBy Ellyn Ball and Lilly Jenkins
Verbs
Who can recall what a verb does?
Verbs
Verbs are words that name an action or describe a state of being. They describe what is happening in the sentence. Every complete sentence needs to include at least one verb.
Some verbs describe specific actions.
Action Verbs An action verb tells what action someone
or something is performing.
Verbs such as walk, sailed, played, migrate, raced crossed, learn and arrive all show some kind of action.
Examples:
Father packed our suitcases
The ship chugged into the harbor.
Transitive Verbs
A transitive verb is an action verb that directs action from the performer of the action toward the receiver of the action.
The “receiver” of the action is a person place or thing-that is a noun or pronoun.
Examples:
The captain rang the bell.
The captain sailed the boat.
Intransitive Verbs
An intransitive verb expresses action or tells something about the subject of the sentence but does not direct action toward another noun or pronoun.
Examples:
The bell rang for dinner.
The ship sailed out to sea.
Quick Check
What does an action verb do?
tells what action someone or something is performing.
Name two types of action verbs?
transitive and intransitive
Visible Action and Mental Action
Visible Action Mental Action
sail swimrip migratesbring smiletraveled cried
remember decideunderstand hopeexpect thinkconsider forgot
Linking Verbs
Some verbs do not show action. Instead, they link two parts of a sentence. These linking verbs thus show a relationship between words in a sentence.
A linking verb connects a noun or pronoun with a word that identifies or describes it.
Linking verbs act almost like as equal signs.
Example:
New York is a city
Lucy seems unhappy.
In English, the most common linking verb is be. This verb has many forms.
Common Linking Verbs
Forms of Be
Am AreIs WasWereAm beingIs beingWas beingWere being
Can beCould beMay beMight beMust beShall beShould beWill beWould be
Have been Has beenHad beenCould have beenMay have beenMight have beenMust have beenShall have beenShould have beenWill have beenWould have been
Other Linking Verbs
Other Linking Verbs
Appear look soundBecome remain stayFeel seem tasteGrow smell turn
Other Linking Verbs
Be is the most commonly used linking verb, but there some other important linking verbs you should know (table above).
Like be, these verbs are often link two parts of a sentence.
She later became a citizen.
The cream tastes sour.
The food stayed fresh and crisp.
Quick Check
The most common linking verb is?
Be
What does a linking verb do?
they link two parts of a sentence
List several other linking verbs besides forms of be?
Action Verb or Linking Verb
Many of the twelve verbs (other linking verbs table) can be used as either linking verbs or action verbs.
To test whether a verb is a linking verb or an action verb, substitute am, are, or is for the verb. If the sentence with the new verb still makes sense, then the original verb is a linking verb.
ExamplesLinking Action
The bread smelled stale(The bread is stale)The Dutch bulbs grow tall(The Dutch bulbs are tall)Tina felt weak.(Tina is weak.)
Charles smelled the sea air.(Charles is the sea air)Ann grows tulips.(Ann are tulips)Tina felt the cloth.(Tina is the cloth.)
Helping Verbs
Sometimes a verb in a sentence is just one word. Often however, a verb will be made up of several words. This type of verb is called a verb phrase. A verb phrase can have one, two, or three helping verbs before the main part of the verb.
Helping verbs are added before another verb to make a verb phrase.
The various forms of be (from above) are often used as helping verbs in front of other verbs.
Recognizing Helping Verbs
Some Forms of BE used as Helping Verbs
Helping verbs Main Verb
AmHas beenWas beingCould have beenWill have been
growingwarnedtoldremindedwaiting
Other Helping Verbs
Do have would will canDoes has shall might couldDid had should must may
Helping Verbs
Words in a verb phrase can sometime be separated by other words. Very often, words such as not, certainly and seldom come between a helping verb and the key part of the verb.
Examples:
Words together: They must have been taken by taxi to the airport.
Words separated: Marie has certainly not contacted us.
Recognizing Helping Verbs
Verb Phrases
Helping Verbs Main Verbs
DoHasWouldCan‘MayMust haveShould have
rememberwrittenhopebelieveattemptthoughtgrown
Quick Check
A verb that is made up of several words is often called a?
Verb phrase
Questions?
You Do
On the left side of your interactive notebook, list one of each kind of verb learned today (do not use any examples given today). Make sure to illustrate and color code.