Kinds of Verbs

What is a verb?

• A word that describes the action.

• Tells the reader what the sentence is talking about.

• Expresses the time and place something is happening.

• Expresses an action, a condition, or a state of being, or links together parts of a sentence.

What kind of verb expresses physical movement?

• Linking verb

• Action verb

• Be verb

• Auxiliary verb

What kind of verb shows the subject's state of being?

• Be verb

• Auxiliary verb

• Action verb

• Linking verb

What else is the helping verb known as?

• Linking verb

• Action verb

• Auxiliary verb

• Be verb

Which among the following options requires a direct object?

• Transitive Verb

• Intransitive Verb

Identify the kind of verb in the following sentence:

My brother and I visited the library yesterday.

• Action

• Be verb

• Linking verb

• Auxiliary verb

Identify the kind of verb in the following sentence:

Ben is afraid of the dark.

• Action verb, Intransitive

• Action verb, Transitive

• Linking verb

• Auxiliary verb

Identify the kind of verb in the following sentence:

The girls were making colorful chalk drawings on the sidewalk.

• Linking verb

• Auxiliary verb

• Action verb, Transitive

• Action verb, Intransitive

Identify the kind of verb in the following sentence:

We can meet at the library.

• Action verb

• Linking verb

• Be verb

• Auxiliary verb

Identify the kind of verb in the following sentence:

Sue lost her project.

• Action verb, Transitive

• Action verb, Intranstive

• Helping verb

• Be verb