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Verb Usage At Glance The Review Created by Ms. Harden Verb • A verb is a word that expresses action or a state of being (linking verb). • Helping verbs assist the main verb. • Verb phrases include one or more helping verbs and a main verb. • There are four principle parts of verbs. They are as follows: the base, the present participle, past, and the past participle. Action Verbs • An action verbs expresses physical or mental action. • Action verbs tell what the subject of a sentence did. • Ex. Kelly introduced me to her friend. • What did Kelly do? She introduced. • So, the action verb is introduced. Action Verbs • Examples of Action Verbs: jump, hit, throw, skipped, thought, determined, remembered, remind, listened, engaged, developed, relied, replied, wondered, and shared. • Kim shared her sandwich with Jim. Linking Verb • A linking verb is a state of being verb. The linking verbs links the subject of the sentence to a word in the predicate. • In other words, the linking verb tells what the subject is or is like. The predicate word will either rename the subject or describe the subject. • Ex. Allen is a policeman. Is is the linking verb. Therefore, Allen and policeman are the same person. Linking Verbs • • • • Verbs of be Be, been, being, is, am, are, was, and were. Other common linking verbs: Seem, feel, become, appear, look, sound, smell, and taste. • The milk tastes funny. Helping Verbs • Helping verbs assist the main verb. • The helping verbs are is, am, are, was, were, be, been, being, can, do, did, does, may, might, must, have, has, had, could, would, should,will, and shall. • She should have gone with me. Verb Phrase • A verb phrase consist of one or more helping verbs and a main verb. A verb phrase is considered as the actual verb in the sentence. A verb phrase is not always right next to each other. Sometimes the helping verb is separated from the main verb. • Did you watch the movie When Harry Met Sally? Verb Tense • Tense of a verb indicates time. The three tenses of time: • Present tense– the action happens now. Ex. I work hard. • Past tense– the action happened already. • Ex. I worked hard yesterday. • Future tense– the action will happen soon. • Ex. I will work tomorrow. Regular Verbs • A regular verb form its past and past participle by adding -d or –ed. • Base: climb • Past: climbed • Past participle: (has, have, had) climbed • Aaron climbed that tree yesterday. • We have climbed it many times, too. Irregular Verbs • An irregular verb does not form its past and past participle by adding –d or –ed. • Base: begin • Past: began • Past participle: (has, have, had) begun • The party has begun.