Download State of Being Verbs (not all)

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Symbol
Part of Speech
Question
Example
Find the Verb (Action or
State of Being)
What is happening?
Run, jump, sat, is was
Find the subject noun or
subject pronoun
Ask verb who? Or what? Did
Dog, Boy, he, she, I
Find the direct object
Say subject, Say Verb, what or
who? (Not always there)
Can only be a noun or
pronoun
Find the Indirect Object
Say subject, say verb, say direct
object, to whom/what? Or for
whom/what?
Can only be a noun or
pronoun
Find Adjectives
Ask nouns/pronouns Which? How
many? What kind? What type?
Blue, two
Article Adjective
a, an, the
Demonstrative Adjective
That, this, these, those
Conjunction
Adds things together
And, but, or, nor,
neither, either, both,
Find Adverb
When? Where? How?
Quickly, yesterday
Interjections
Stand out
Wow! Oh,
Preposition
Group or phrase before a
noun/pronoun
In, to, with
Object of a Preposition
Pronoun
Noun/pronoun
In place of a noun
He it, I, We, they
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Possessive
Noun/Possessive
Pronoun
Participle
Predicate Noun
Gerunds
Predicate Adjective
infinitives
State of Being Verbs (not all)
Is
Were
Has
Might
Did
Shall
Are
Be
Have
Most
Can
will
Subject
I
it
You
we
She
they
He
Prepositions (not all)
Am
was About
Being
Been Among
Had
May Below
Do
does By
Could Should From
would
Into
on
Over
toward
upon
Pronouns
Object
me
it
you
us
her
them
him
After
above
across
against
along
around
at
before
behind
beneath
beside
between
down
during
except
for
In
In front of Inside
Instead of
Like
Near
Of
Off
onto
on top of
Out of
Outside
Past
Since
Through
To
Under
Underneath Until
up
with
within
without
Proofreading Marks
Delete or take out
^
Insert or add
Capitol letter
/
Make lowercase letter
. , “ : Punctuation
Close gap/no space
sp
Incorrect spelling
bw
Better word choice