Identifying Verbs and Verb Phrases

Verbs

W.a.l.a: To understand and identify verbs.

What are verbs?

• A word used to describe an action, state, or occurrence, and forming the main part of the predicate of a sentence

• An action/ doing words such as laughed, ate, sat, played and many others.

Multiple Choice

What is the verb in the sentence below?

I ate ugali today.

• I

• Ugali

• Today

• ate

Multiple Choice

What is a verb?

• Action/doing word

• word that describes a noun

• word that replaces a noun

Multiple Choice

Is Blue a verb or not?

• YES

• NO

• Maybe

• Both

Multiple Choice

Do some verbs end with -ed

• Yes

• No

• maybe

Multiple Select

I __________ to school on Monday.

• was

• went

• rode

Multiple Choice

I ______________ food yesterday.

• sweet

• ate

• chicken

Multiple Choice

What is the verb in the sentence.

I have eaten food today.

• ate

• eaten

• food

• today

• I

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