Verbs: The Action Words
About the Verbs: The Action Words Lesson
Summary
This is a short review lesson about action verbs and state-of-being verbs.
Objectives
• to review the meaning of action verbs and state of being verbs;
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to provide explanations and brief definitions of linking verbs and helping verbs;
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to provide a list showing forms of the verb to be for easy reference;
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to provide a list of the twenty-three helping verbs for easy reference.
Suggested Grades
4th Grade
5th Grade
6th Grade
Excerpt
Answer this question. What part of speech must a sentence have to be a sentence? Did you answer verb? If you did, you are right.
Verbs are the action words in a sentence. No sentence is complete without a verb. In fact, a sentence can be only one word long as long as that word is a verb.
? Smile!
? Run!
? Jump!
These are all one-word sentences using a verb. We can write a sentence without the other seven parts of speech, but we cannot write a sentence without a verb. If we try, the words don?t make a sentence. They don?t make sense.
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