Helping Linking Action

Action, Linking, and Helping Verbs

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Action Verbs

Show physical action (dance, jump, eat)

Can also be mental (thinking/wondering)​

Multiple Choice

Identify the action verb:

The girl ate seven tacos.

• girl

• ate

• seven

• tacos

Helping Verbs

Like Robin is to Batman

They help another verb (action/main verb)

They show tense, mood, or voice

(To Be: am, is, are, was, were, being, been, will be.)

(To Have: has, have, had, having, will have.)

(To Do: does, do, did, will do.)

Multiple Choice

Identify the helping verb:

The family will travel this summer.

• family

• summer

• travel

• will

Linking Verbs

Connect the subject to words that describe the subject.

​He feels sad.

The food smells good.

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Multiple Choice

Identify the linking verb:

The turtles were green with brown spots.

• turtles

• green

• were

• spots

Multiple Choice

Identify the linking verb:

The salmon was smelly.

• The

• was

• salmon

• smelly

Multiple Choice

Identify the linking verb:

The people are angry.

• The

• people

• are

• angry

Multiple Choice

Identify the action verb:

The car swerved off the road.

• car

• swerved

• the

• road

Multiple Choice

Identify the action verb:

The students worked on their projects all morning.

• The

• worked

• all

• morning

Multiple Choice

Identify the helping verb:

The children had made cards for their families.

• had

• families

• cards

• their

Multiple Choice

Identify the helping verb:

I will play volleyball this afternoon.

• I

• will

• afternoon

• volleyball

Multiple Choice

Identify the helping verb:

We did call our friends over the weekend.

• We

• did

• over

• call

Multiple Choice

What is the linking verb?

The teacher is ready to begin class.

• teacher

• class

• begin

• is