Types of Verbs

He ate the sandwich.

• Transitive
• Intransitive
• Linking
• Hungry Verb

They ran away.

• Transitive
• Intransitive
• Linking
• Fast Verb

Carl smells like fish.

• Transitive
• Intransitive
• Linking
• Funky Verb

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RL.7.4

John destroyed the evidence.

• Transitive
• Intransitive
• Linking
• Danger Verb

Eddie feels queasy.

• Transitive
• Intransitive
• Linking
• Cool Verb

Which type of verb shows mental or physical action?

• Action

• Helping

• Linking

Which type of verb does NOT express action and INSTEAD links the subject to another noun or describing word (adjective)?

• Action

• Linking

• Helping

Identify ALL of the action verbs in the following sentence:

The little boy laughs whenever he sees a clown.

• The

• little

• boy

• laughs

• sees

Identify ALL of the action verbs in the following sentence:

Steve kicked Andrew and Andrew screamed.

• Steve

• kicked

• Andrew

• screamed

Which of the following sentences has a linking verb in it?

• I smell roses.

• The roses smell good.