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Chapter 2 ･ Verbs and Adverbs ･ p. 25
Action Verbs
• Action verbs show action.
Sometimes you can’t see
the action even though it’s
happening, as with to think
or to know.
What verbs can you use to tell
what she’s doing?
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Chapter 2 ･ Verbs and Adverbs ･ p. 27
Linking Verbs
• Boring linking verbs connect, or “link,” the subject of a
sentence to a word that follows it and refers back to the
subject. The most common linking verbs are the forms
of to be.
Fluffy’s hairball is hefty.
“Is” links the subject, hairball, to
the adjective, hefty.
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Chapter 2 ･ Verbs and Adverbs ･ p. 31
Verb Phrase
• A verb phrase consists of
one or more helping
verbs followed by a main
verb. These verbs join
together to act as one
verb.
Bozo is making balloon marsupials for the children.
Is-helping verb, making-main verb, is making-verb phrase.
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Chapter 4 ･ Parts of the Sentence: Subject, Predicate, and Complement ･ p. 66
Direct Objects
• A direct object is always a noun or
pronoun that comes after the action
verb. It receives the action of the verb,
so ask whom or what after the verb to
find the direct object.
Whom or what did
Thadeus compliment?
Thadeus complimented
Nadine on her new
Tyrannosaurus earrings.
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Chapter 4 ･ Parts of the Sentence: Subject, Predicate, and Complement ･ p. 68
Indirect Objects
• Some sentences have indirect objects.
An indirect object comes before the
direct object and is always a noun or
pronoun. Find the direct object and then
ask to whom, for whom, to what or for
what about the direct object to find the
indirect object.
Find the direct objects in this sentence.
Wyonna taught her hamster and
garden snake a song and tap
dance from a hit Broadway show.
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Chapter 4 ･ Parts of the Sentence: Subject, Predicate, and Complement ･ p. 69
Predicate Nominative and Adjective
• Subject complements only come after linking verbs. There
are two types. The predicate nominative is a noun or
pronoun that follows a linking verb. A predicate adjective
is an adjective following the linking verb.
Which sentence has a predicate nominative and which sentence has
a predicate adjective?
Gromer’s best friend is his
pet eggplant.
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The hair on Puddington’s
three headed cat looks straggly.
Chapter 5 ･ Dazed by Phrases? ･ p. 84
Gerund
• A gerund is a form of verb that acts like a noun in a
sentence. A gerund ends in -ing and can be one word or
more than one word, a gerund phrase. Gerunds can
function as subjects, direct objects, indirect objects, objects
of the preposition or predicate nominatives!
Rhonda won first place in the
rodeo for riding a rodent.
This gerund phrase functions
as a/an (fill in the blank…)
_____________.
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Chapter 5 ･ Dazed by Phrases? ･ p. 85
Infinitives
• An infinitive is usually the word to, followed by a verb.
What’s the infinitive in this sentence?
To avoid calling attention to himself, Rutherford sometime wears
a paper sack over his head.
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