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VERBS
TO ACT OR TO BE??
KINDS OF VERBS
• ACTION/STATE OF BEING VERB
– Examples: Run, jump, hope, am, are, is, skip, push
• LINKING VERB
– Acts as an equal sign .
• HELPING VERB
– Tells when the action is taking place
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WHAT IS A VERB ANYWAY?
• It is an action, state or linking relationship.
Action
Ride
Action
Ring
State
Sad
Linking
Smell
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ACTION VERB
• Action verbs can be found by asking the question, “Can I”
• shows the noun performing some kind of action. Note that
an action is not necessarily a physically obvious activity.
– Thinking and dreaming are also actions
• Action verbs tell us what the subject is doing
• Action verbs sometimes have objects that receive the action
of the subject
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STATE OF BEING
• State-of-being verbs describe what somebody OR
something is – NO ACTION INVOLVED.
• A state of being verb means that you exist – no action
involved – YOU JUST ARE OR SOMETHING JUST IS!
• There are eight state-of-being verbs.
• be, being, been, am, are, is, was, were
• I am cold.
The ball is red and white.
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LINKING VERB
• Connects the subject of a verb to additional information
about the subject.
• Does not show any action!!
• act as an equals (=) sign in the sentence.
• The subject is not doing anything. Instead, it is or
is like something else in the sentence
– For example, in the sentence :
• Laura is sweet. The verb “is” links the subject Laura to
the idea that she is sweet.
• Linking verbs are most commonly different forms of the
verb “to be.”
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EXAMPLES OF LINKING VERBS
• Linking verbs include the
forms of the verb to be
– is, am , was, were, are, be, being,
been
• Linking verbs are also related
to the senses:
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tastes
looks
feels
sounds
seems, and more
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IMPORTANT NOTE
 A linking verb will always have a word in the predicate(tells
something about the subject)that it links to the subject (what or
whom the sentence is about)
 Always, always, always
 There is a way to find out if the word you are looking at is a
linking verb or not…….
 Here is how you will know
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Substitute
• If you can substitute is, am, or are for the word you think is a
linking verb, and the sentence still makes sense…then it is a
linking verb!
• example:
– The cake tastes delicious.
– If you substitute – The cake is delicious. Makes sense,
right! In this case, tastes is a linking verb.
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HOW LINKING VERBS WORK!
Here is your linking verb
think = sign
Mr. Gleckman
is
the nicest teacher
in the school.
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HELPING VERB
• Always works with an action or linking verb in a sentence.
• A helping verb is never used by itself; it is always followed by an
action or linking verb.
• Some of the most common helping verbs are can, could, do, did,
has, had, have, may, might, must, shall, should, will and would.
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HELPING VERBS MODIFY(adjust)…
• THE MEANING OF MAIN VERB
– EXAMPLES:
– I may be late for the meeting.
– Would you mind if I stayed here for awhile?
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PRIMARY HELPING VERBS
• We can use these three verbs as helping verbs or as main verbs.
• To BE
• am, are, is, was, were
• To Do
• do, does, did,
• To Have
• have, has, had
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In grammar, "tense" refers to
the form of the verb itself:
• Tense indicates completeness or continuance. If
the event is complete, it's past; if the event isn't
complete, it's present.
• We use past tense to tell about something that
happened at a specific time in the past, or to tell
about something that happened repeatedly in
the past.
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PAST TENSES
• When the verb in the independent clause is the
past tense, the verb in the dependent clause is
usually in a past tense as well. The past tenses
are: the simple past, the past progressive, the
past perfect, and the past perfect progressive.
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When you are writing, be sure to keep the
same tense throughout your paper
Do This:
• I saw a bear climb a tree, and then I wrote about him.
• Jenny mixed the cake, while I whipped the frosting.
Do Not Do This:
• I saw a bear climb a tree, and then I write about him.
• Jenny mixes the cake, while I whipped the frosting.
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HELPING VERBS AND TENSE
– USE THE VERB TO HAVE FOR PAST PERFECT AND PRESENT
PERFECT
– USE THE VERBS TO HAVE AND WILL FOR FUTURE PERFECT
– PAST PERFECT -to describe a past event or condition completed before
another event in the past started.
• He told me that the bus had left when I arrived at the station.
• When I arrived home, he had already called.
– PRESENT PERFECT
• Connection with past: the situation started in the past.
Connection with present: the situation continues in the present.
– I have worked here since June.
How long have you worked at Wal-Mart?
– FUTURE PERFECT – Future action OR condition done
before another!
• By the time you read this, the lesson will be over.
• The children will have gone to sleep when I arrive home.
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MORE ABOUT HELPING VERBS
• A main verb can have up to three helping verbs
– helping verbs are underlined and main verbs are shown in color
• I am learning Spanish Grammar.
• I should have known the answer to that question.
• Marsha will have been studying English for more than a
year before she leaves for Europe.
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SUBJECT/VERB AGREEMENT
• To be correct, subjects and verbs must agree…
• They must agree in NUMBER:
• Singular subjects go with singular verbs.
• Everyone wants to win the lottery.
• Plural subjects go with plural verbs.
• All the players want to win the game.
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CHECK ITS FUNCTION!
• In English, the same word can have different functions
• For example, paint can be a verb or a noun
– Let's paint the garage.
– We brought paint to school.
In the first sentence, paint is a verb—it is something you can do. In
the second sentence, paint is a noun—it is a thing.
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Here are some other examples.
Our rabbits live in a hutch.
Luis sang before a live audience.
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In the first sentence, live is a verb—it is something you can do.
In the second sentence, live is an adjective—it describes
something. Smile, dance, contact, ski, color, and research are just a
few of the many other English words that can have different
functions.
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