Helping Verb and Main Verb

Which verb tells the action when the verb is more than one word?

• action verb

• helping verb

• linking verb

• noun

Tags

CCSS.L.1.1E

CCSS.L.3.1A

CCSS.L.K.1B

What is a verb that helps the main verb in a verb phrase?

• action verb

• helping verb

• linking verb

• adjective

Tags

CCSS.L.1.1E

CCSS.L.1.4C

CCSS.L.2.6

CCSS.L.3.1A

CCSS.L.4.1B

They are singing for his birthday.
What type of verb is highlighted?

• main verb
• helping verb

Tags

CCSS.L.1.1E

CCSS.L.1.4C

CCSS.L.2.6

CCSS.L.3.1A

CCSS.L.4.1B

Cookie Monster will eat lots of cookies.
What type of verb is highlighted?

• main verb
• helping verb

Tags

CCSS.L.1.1E

CCSS.L.1.4C

CCSS.L.2.6

CCSS.L.3.1A

CCSS.L.4.1B

Many runners raced toward the finish line.
What is the verb in the sentence?

• line
• toward
• raced

Tags

CCSS.L.3.1A

Identify the verb in this sentence:

Billy jumped over the fence.

• Billy

• jumped

• over

• fence

Tags

CCSS.L.1.1E

CCSS.L.1.4C

CCSS.L.2.6

CCSS.L.3.1A

CCSS.L.4.1B

Identify the verb in this sentence:
The students studied for the test.

• The
• test
• studied
• students

Tags

CCSS.L.3.2E

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.L.5.6

CCSS.L.6.2B

Identify the verb in this sentence:
We are eating Los Portales for lunch!

• are eating
• We
• Los Portales
• lunch

Tags

CCSS.L.1.1E

CCSS.L.1.4C

CCSS.L.2.6

CCSS.L.3.1A

CCSS.L.4.1B

Identify the verb in this sentence:
The tiny baby is happy.

• tiny
• is
• baby
• happy

Tags

CCSS.L.1.1E

CCSS.L.1.4C

CCSS.L.2.6

CCSS.L.3.1A

CCSS.L.4.1B

Identify the helping verb in the following sentence: Luke was watching the football game on TV.

• football
• watching
• was
• Luke

Tags

CCSS.L.1.1E

CCSS.L.1.4C

CCSS.L.2.6

CCSS.L.3.1A

CCSS.L.4.1B