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Verbs
6 TH
MS. WILE
GRADE LANGUAGE ARTS
Verb Rap
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The Verb
 A verb is a word that expresses action or a state of
being.
 Every complete sentence has a verb.
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It says something about the subject.
 Verbs are classified in two ways:
 Action or Linking Verbs
 Main or Helping Verbs
Main Verbs and Helping Verbs
 In many sentences, a single word is all that is needed
to express the action or state of being.
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Examples:
The dog barked.
 Brett throws the ball a long way.
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Main Verbs and Helping Verbs
 In other sentences, the verb consists of a main verb
and one or more helping verbs.
 A helping verb (also called an auxiliary verb) helps
the main verb to express action or a state of being.
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Examples:
Can speak
 Will learn
 Should have been fed
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 Together, the main verb and the helping verb form
the verb phrase.
Practice
 Identify the verb phrase (helping verb and main
verb) in each of the following sentences:
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We are going to Arizona this summer.
It’s spectacular beauty has captured their imagination.
Visitors can purchase the items as souvenirs.
Hikes must be arranged with park rangers.
Action Verbs
 Tells an action someone did, is doing, or will do.
 It expresses physical or mental activity.
 Examples:
Please cook dinner.
 Fran understands the science homework.
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Linking Verbs
 A linking verb connects or links the subject to a word
or word group that identifies or describes the
subject.
 Think of linking verbs as an equal sign.
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Examples:
The firefighters had appeared victorious. [firefighters=victorious]
 Sandra Cisneros is a writer. [Sandra Cisneros=writer]
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Practice
 Identify the linking verbs in the following sentences:
 The almond is high in protein.
 Peanut Butter was the invention of a St. Louis doctor.
Verbs
 All verbs have four basic forms, or principal parts.
They are the present, the present participle, the
past, and the past participle.
 Verbs are classified as either regular or irregular,
depending on the way they form their past and past
participle.
Principal Parts
Present
Present
Participle
Past
Past Participle
Cook
Cooking
Cooked
(have) cooked
Steal
Stealing
Stole
(have) stolen
Make
Making
Made
(have) made
Regular vs. Irregular Verbs
 Regular Verb
A
regular verb is one
whose past and past
participle are
formed by adding –
ed or –d to the
present form.
 Irregular Verb
 An
irregular verb is
one whose past and
past participle are
not formed by
adding –ed or –d to
the present form.
Regular vs. Irregular Verbs
 Regular Verbs
 During the Great Depression, many banks (fail) failed.
 In 1955. Rosa Park (refuse) to give up her seat on the bus
refused.
 Irregular Verbs
 During the games, players (drink) a lot of water drank.
 Ed and Gene have (be) in a workshop all day been.
Practice
This is the first time I have wrote a letter to the editor. Our
community has saw too many people who have drowned. A
friend of mine swum way out. When she got caught in a
riptide, a lifeguard swimmed out and bringed her back to
shore. No one has teached us students swimming safety. Not
all parents have teached their youngsters to swim. Young
people have took too many chances. I think the people who
rave ran the schools are making a mistake. Too many
swimming disasters have already striked this community.
Vivid Verbs
 As writers we often get stuck in particular patterns of
writing, and one of these patterns is using the same
verbs over and over again.
 One way to solve this problem is by replacing your
general verbs with vivid verbs.
Vivid Verbs
 Vivid verbs are useful for a variety of reasons.
 First of all, they make your writing more interesting and
enjoyable for the reader.
 Secondly, vivid verbs have more specific meanings than the
general verbs they replace. However, you must be careful when
replacing a general verb with a vivid verb to ensure that the
vivid verb does not significantly alter the meaning of the
sentence.
Vivid Verbs
 Example:
 As the students walked through the park, the breeze blew the
leaves on the trees.
 As the students ambled through the park, the breeze lifted the
leaves on the trees.