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Name_______________________________________ Core____________________ VERB UNIT STUDY GUIDE I. Action Verbs (Pg. 144) A. Action verbs tell what the subject _________________________. Examples: 1. We ________________________on the beach. 2. We ________________________towards the ocean. 3. We_________________________seashells. 4. It __________________________me at first. II. Main Verbs and Auxiliary Verbs (Pg. 145) A. A verb that is made up of more than one word is called a ______________________. B. The ________________ verb in a verb phrase is the main verb. The other verbs are called auxiliary or ________________________verbs. Examples: 1. Bill Moore ___________ __________________ home. 2. The door ____________ ____________ _________________. C. Common Auxilary Verbs Am ___________ do has _________ Is be __________ had will _______ being did _______ shall Was ____________ have _______ could might ________ should C. Sometimes the auxiliary verb in one sentence is the _______________ verb in another. Example: did I did my homework. MAIN VERB I did wait for you. AUXILARY VERB D. In questions, the main verb and its auxiliaries may be separated by the _________________ of the sentence. Example: Should we leave now? III. Direct Objects (Pg 148) A. An action verb is often followed by a word that tells ______________ or ____________ receives the action. This is the direct object. Example: Ann programmed the ______________________. Ann programmed WHAT? _______________________. B. In some sentences, the direct object is ______________________ meaning there are more than one. Example: I need oil ____________ and a _________________ for my hobby. You need WHAT? _________________ and _________________ IV. Being and Linking Verbs (Pg. 152) A. Some verbs do not show action. They show what the subject _____________ or is _____________. Verbs called __________________ verbs show a state of being. B. A being verb is often a ________________________ verb. It links the subject of a sentence with the word or words in the __________________________that tell more about it. C. The word can be a predicate _____________ which renames the subject, or a predicate ___________________ which describes the subject. D. Common Being and Linking Verbs Am _______ be ___________ feel _____ were __________ look _______ are ________ been __________ smell Example: Our president is Mr. Barack Obama. Linking verb _____________ Barack Obama is the predicate noun because it _____________ him. V. Verb tenses (Pg 154) A. The tense of the verb tells when the action or the state of being is takes place. The present tense tells when something is happening ___________________. Ex. _________________ The past tense tells when something _________________________________. Ex. _________________ The future tense tells when something _____________________________. Ex. _____ _______________ VI. Principal parts of Verbs ( Pg 156) A. The present participle and past participle are always used with a _____________________ verb. B. Regular verbs in the past and part participle are formed by adding ______ or _____. C. Some verbs are ___________________ and the past and past participle are NOT formed by adding -d or -ed. Example: speak Past tense: spoke past participle: had spoken VII. Irregular Verbs (Pg 158) REVIEW THE VERBS ON PAGE 158! VIII. Subject Verb Agreement A. A verb and its subject must agree in number.Use a singular verb with a singular subject and a ___________ verb with a ___________________ subject. Example: SINGULAR: The boy ______________________. The girl __________________. PLURAL: The boys ________________. B. A ________________________ subject joined by and takes a plural verb. Example: The boy and the girl _________________. C. Singular verbs in the present tense usually end in _______ or ________. Plural verbs in the present tense do not end in s. ***EXCEPTION TO THE RULE: When the subject is I or You, the verb _______________ end in s. ***EXCEPTION TO THE RULE: The verb ‘to be’ does not follow the usual rules. I am(present) Was(past) He, she, it Singular nouns __________(present) __________(past) We, you, they All ________nouns _________(present) were (past) IX. More About Subject Verb Agreement (Pg 162) A. When or, either….or, neither…..nor is used to join the parts of a compound subject the verb may be singular or plural. B. Use plural verb if both parts of the subject are ____________________. Example: Books or Magazines_____________ always on the table. C. Use ____________________ verb if both parts of the subject are singular. Example: Neither Jim nor Sally ____________ ever without a good book. D. If one part is singular and the other is plural, make the verb agree with the subject that is _______________________ to it. Example: Neither his friends or Ted __________________ mystery books. E. Here and There are ________________the subject of the sentence. If a sentence begins with here or there, first find the __________________, and then make the verb agree with it. Example: Here ______ the index. What is here? ___________________ X. Contractions (Pg. 164) A. A contraction is a word formed by combining ________ words and shortening one of them. An ______________ takes the place of the letters or letters left out. B. Sometimes a verb and not are combined, however NOT IS ___________ a verb! Examples: Isn’t is not ____________ are not Wasn’t ______________ ____________ were not ____________ will not can’t _____________ doesn’t _____________ haven’t ____________ could not _____________ has not ______________ XI. Sit, set, lie, lay, raise, rise (Pg 166) A. To decide which verb to use, ask yourself what the subject is doing. If the subject is placing an object somewhere use _____________________ or ________________________. B. If the subject is resting use ____________ or ___________________. C. To decide between raise and rise, ask yourself raise what? If your answer names something, use ______________. If the question has no answer, use _________________. XII. Lend, borrow, let, leave, teach, learn (Pg 168) A. Lend means _____________________________________________ Borrow means____________________________________________ B. Let means _______________________________________________ Leave means _____________________________________________ C. Teach means______________________________________________ Learn means______________________________________________ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------EXTRA CREDIT: I showed my parent that I studied this study guide. Parent Signature _______________________________________________________