Previewing Verbs

What is a verb?

• A person, place, or thing

• A describing word

• An action word

• An opposite word

Which of these words is a verb?

• climb

• sister

• hot

• home

Choose the verb in this sentence: The kids skipped all the way to school.

• kids

• way

• school

• skipped

Choose the verb from this sentence: We eat our lunch at the table.

• lunch

• eat

• we

• table

Which list ONLY has verbs?

• run, jump, hide, read

• dog, book, apple, yellow

• cute, bike, flower, cat

• house, shoes, hair, baby

Choose the verb from this sentence: Kayla listens to a story before bedtime.

• story

• Kayla

• listens

• bedtime

Choose the verb from this sentence: James always throws away all of his trash.

• throws

• James

• trash

• away

Choose the TWO verbs from this sentence: We ate dinner and then walked around the park yesterday before dark.

• dinner and park

• before and yesterday

• then and dark

• ate and walked

Which of these words is NOT a verb?

• help

• dream

• cow

• smile

Which of the following is an action verb?

• barked

• someone

• red

• quietly