Grammar Lesson 12 Action Verbs

What is an action verb?

• A word that is a person, place, or thing

• something that you can do

• a word that starts a sentence

• a word that describes a noun

Find the action verb in the following sentence

The brown pinecone fell from the tree.

• brown

• pinecone

• from

• fell

Find the action verb in the following sentence

We skipped down the boardwalk after the seagulls.

• We

• down

• skipped

• seagulls

Which answer choice contains action verbs?

• jump, hop, walk, run

• bird, house, downstairs

• the, angry, yellow

• many, few, things

Fill in sentence with the correct action verb

The student will _________ up the teacher's pencil from the floor.

• eat

• pick

• jump

• help

Find the action verb in the following sentence:

Many seals lay on the beach to get warm.

• many

• seals

• lay

• beach

Find the correct action verb for the sentence:

He _________ his truck to the garage to get new brakes.

• flew

• jumped

• drove

• many

Find the action verb

• sleep

• quiet

• lazy

• elephant

Find the action verb

• forest

• ski

• basement

• a

find the action verb

• follow

• sad

• television

• computer