Be, Linking, Helping, Transitive, & Intransitive Verbs

A ____ is a word used to express action or state-of-being.

What is used to express physical action or mental action?

• action verb

• state of being verb

• pronoun

• noun

Identify the type of verb: Dozens of grackles are in the trees.

• state of being

• action

• linking

• helping

Identify the type of verb: The stage crew fixed the lights.

• state of being verb

• action verb

• linking verb

• helping verb

A linking verb links, or connects, the _______ with a word or word group in the predicate that describes or renames it.

• subject

• verb

• predicate

• action

Identify the linking verb: Tomorrow it may be overcast with clouds.

• may be

• Tomorrow

• it

• overcast with clouds

Identify the linking verb: She appeared uninjured from the wreck.

• She

• appeared

• uninjured

• from

A ________ verb, or auxiliary verb, helps the main verb to tell about an action.

• helping

• linking

• state of being

• action

Identify the helping verb: We may never know how that mystery was resolved.

• may

• never

• know

• mystery

Identify the helping verb: It had rained the day before.

• It

• had

• rained

• before