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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
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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.