Verbs in a Sentence

Verbs in a Sentence

A complete sentence needs:

a subject and a verb.

Action Verbs

• Action verbs desribe what someone (or something) does.

• Carl calls his grandma every Saturday.

• I cooked tacos for dinner.

• Rebecca dreams of visiting Mexico.

Linking Verbs

• Some verbs just connect the subject to the rest of the sentence

• Be, have, do

• Johnny is in the school choir.

Multiple Choice

Alexis is on her school's softball team.

• Alexis

• is

• team

Multiple Choice

I was ten when I went to Hawaii.

• Was

• Hawaii

• Went

Multiple Choice

John does a lot of after school activities.

• Activities

• John

• does