Action, Linking, & Helping Verbs from Streetcar

Find the verb: "Her expression is one of shocked disbelief" (Williams 5).

• is

• shocked

• expression

• disbelief

Identify the verb or verbs: "You seem a little bit nervous or overwrought or something" (Williams 17).

• you

• nervous

• seem

• overwrought

Identify the verb: "A while later that evening, Blanche is seated in a tense hunched position in a bedroom chair..." (Williams 139).

• is

• is seated

• is hunched

• hunched

• later

Identify the verb: "Blanche, at the sound of voices, retires to the bedroom" (Williams 23).

Identify the verb or verbs: "She laughs sharply. There is an embarrassed silence" (Williams 15).

• laughs

• sharply

• is

• embarrassed

Identify the verb: "Blanche's dress, a flowered print, is laid out on Stella's bed" (Williams 29).

• laid

• out

• is

• on

Identify the verb or verbs: "He pulls open the wardrobe trunk standing in the middle of the room..." (Williams 33).

• wardrobe

• in

• standing

• pulls