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Action – Linking - Helping Verbs …. More Verbs! 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? The Giggly Guide to Grammar 2008 Cathy Campbell. All rights reserved. www.discoverwriting.com・For classroom use only. 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. The Giggly Guide to Grammar 2008 Cathy Campbell. All rights reserved. www.discoverwriting.com・For classroom use only. 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. The Giggly Guide to Grammar 2008 Cathy Campbell. All rights reserved. www.discoverwriting.com・For classroom use only. 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. The Giggly Guide to Grammar 2008 Cathy Campbell. All rights reserved. www.discoverwriting.com・For classroom use only. 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. The Giggly Guide to Grammar 2008 Cathy Campbell. All rights reserved. www.discoverwriting.com・For classroom use only. 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. The Giggly Guide to Grammar 2008 Cathy Campbell. All rights reserved. www.discoverwriting.com・For classroom use only. 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…) _____________. The Giggly Guide to Grammar 2008 Cathy Campbell. All rights reserved. www.discoverwriting.com・For classroom use only. 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. The Giggly Guide to Grammar 2008 Cathy Campbell. All rights reserved. www.discoverwriting.com・For classroom use only.