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Q1: What is the action verb in the
following sentence:
Bender bended stuff all the time.
A.
B.
C.
D.
Bender
Bended
Time
All
Q1: What is the action verb in the
following sentence:
Bender bended stuff all the time.
A.
B.
C.
D.
Bender
Bended
Time
All
Q2: What is the action verb in the
following sentence:
The teachers killed and murdered
students always.
A.
B.
C.
D.
Teachers
Always
Murdered
Killed
Q2: What is the action verb in the
following sentence:
The teachers killed and murdered
students always.
A.
B.
C.
D.
Teachers
Always
Murdered
Killed
Q3: What is the kind of the action verb
in the following sentence:
The old man threw a stick on the
running kid.
A. Transitive
B. Intransitive
Q3: What is the kind of the action verb
in the following sentence:
The old man threw a stick on the
running kid.
A. Transitive
B. Intransitive
Q4: What is the kind of the action verb
in the following sentence:
Stalin killed when he was in power.
A. Transitive
B. Intransitive
Q4: What is the kind of the action verb
in the following sentence:
Stalin killed when he was in power.
A. Transitive
B. Intransitive
Linking Verbs
• A linking verb is a verb that connect a subject
with a word that describes or identifies it.
Ex: Edison was a great inventor.
Identifies
Where ‘Edison’ identifies
‘Inventor’ and ‘was’ links
Forms of Be
• The most common linking verbs in English is
Be and its forms:
There are other Linking verbs than Be
• Example: He looked shy.
Where looked here is a
linking verb.
Linking Verbs Other Than Be:
1-Appear 4-Become 7-Feel
10-Grow
2-Look
5-Remain 8-Seem 11-Smell
3-Sound 6-Stay
9-Taste
12-Turn
Note: Most of them describe senses.
Separating Linking Verbs from Action
Verbs
• Some linking verbs can also be used as action
verbs:
Linking-He looked strange
Action-He looked around
So to test whether are they action or linking
we replace the verb with: ‘is’, ‘am’, or ‘are’ and
see if it makes sense
TIME for questions!
Are you a
MAN
for it?!
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Q1: What is the linking verb in the
sentence:
Hitler was harsh but fair.
A.
B.
C.
D.
Was
Harsh
Hitler
But
Q1: What is the linking verb in the
sentence:
Hitler was harsh but fair.
A.
B.
C.
D.
Was
Harsh
Hitler
But
Q2: What is the linking verb in the
sentence:
This has been an experiment.
A.
B.
C.
D.
Has
Been
An
None of the above
Q2: What is the linking verb in the
sentence:
This has been an experiment.
A.
B.
C.
D.
Has
Been
An
None of the above
Q3: Is the verb in the statement an action or
linking verb?
He grew five centimeters more than last year.
A. Linking
B. Action
Q3: Is the verb in the statement an action or
linking verb?
He grew five centimeters more than last year.
A. Linking
B. Action
Q4: Convert the last statement into a statement
with a linking verb using the same verb.
Helping Verbs
• A helping verb is a verb that are added before
another verb to make a verb phrase, giving
the main verb more meaning.
Ex: He might have cheated all the time.