Verbs

Auxiliary verbs help main verbs. Example = The dog will bark at me. Will helps out bark. Which of the following is an auxiliary verb in the following sentence: The class will pass the test.

• pass

• will

• class

• test

Some verbs link subjects with the adjectives that describe them. The dog smells funny. Smells links dog with funny. Which is a linking verb in this sentence? It smells gross in here.

• It

• smells

• gross

• here

Which verb is helping another main verb in this sentence? I will do my homework. (This is the auxiliary verb.)

• I

• will

• do

• homework

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CCSS.L.6.4A

There are 7 be verbs to remember: Be, Been, Am, Is, Are, Was, Were. Find the BE verb in the following sentence: The students are talented.

• The

• students

• are

• talented

Is the following underlined word a BE verb? The football players and cheerleaders left early.

• NO!

• YES!

Is the following underlined word in the sentence a BE verb? I am tired.

• NO!

• YES!

Is the following underlined word a BE verb? Where is my supersuit?!

• NO!

• YES!

Is the following underlined word a BE verb? I have been robbed!

• NO!

• YES!

The following verbs are linking verbs: look, feel, smell, sound, taste, become, appear, grow, remain, seem, stay, turn. Find the linking verb in this sentence: My garden grows roses annually.

• garden

• grows

• roses

• annually

Find the linking verb in this sentence:

That music sounds great!

• That

• music

• sounds

• great