Verbs

Determine if the underlined word is an action verb or state of being verb:

They were flat round wafers, slightly browned on the edges and butter-yellow in the center. With the cold lemonade they were sufficient for childhood's lifelong diet. Remembering my manners, I took  nice lady-like bites off the edges. She said she had made them expressly for me and that she had a few in the kitchen that I could take home to my brother. So I jammed one whole cake in my mouth and the rough crumbs scratched the insides of my jaws, and if I hadn't had to swallow it, it would have been a dream come true.

• State of being verb

• Action verb

Determine if the underlined word is an action verb or state of being verb:

They were flat round wafers, slightly browned on the edges and butter-yellow in the center. With the cold lemonade they were sufficient for childhood's lifelong diet. Remembering my manners, I took  nice lady-like bites off the edges. She said she had made them expressly for me and that she had a few in the kitchen that I could take home to my brother. So I jammed one whole cake in my mouth and the rough crumbs scratched the insides of my jaws, and if I hadn't had to swallow it, it would have been a dream come true.

• State of being verb

• Action verb

Determine if the underlined word is an action verb or state of being verb:

They were flat round wafers, slightly browned on the edges and butter-yellow in the center. With the cold lemonade they were sufficient for childhood's lifelong diet. Remembering my manners, I took  nice lady-like bites off the edges. She said she had made them expressly for me and that she had a few in the kitchen that I could take home to my brother. So I jammed one whole cake in my mouth and the rough crumbs scratched the insides of my jaws, and if I hadn't had to swallow it, it would have been a dream come true.

• State of being verb

• Action verb

Determine if the underlined word is an action verb or state of being verb:

They were flat round wafers, slightly browned on the edges and butter-yellow in the center. With the cold lemonade they were sufficient for childhood's lifelong diet. Remembering my manners, I took  nice lady-like bites off the edges. She said she had made them expressly for me and that she had a few in the kitchen that I could take home to my brother. So I jammed one whole cake in my mouth and the rough crumbs scratched the insides of my jaws, and if I hadn't had to swallow it, it would have been a dream come true.

• State of being verb

• Action verb

Find the linking verb in the passage

The passage is an excerpt from "The Struggle to Be an All-American Girl" by Elizabeth Wong:

The voice belonged to my grandmother, a fragile woman in her seventies who could outshout the best of the street vendors. Her humor was raunchy, her Chinese rhythmless, patternless. It was quick, it was loud, it was unbeautiful. It was not like the quiet, lilting romance of French or the gentle refinement of the American South.

• was

• belonged

• her

• could

Find the linking verb in the passage

The passage is an excerpt from "The Struggle to Be an All-American Girl" by Elizabeth Wong:

The voice belonged to my grandmother, a fragile woman in her seventies who could outshout the best of the street vendors. Her humor was raunchy, her Chinese rhythmless, patternless. It was quick, it was loud, it was unbeautiful. It was not like the quiet, lilting romance of French or the gentle refinement of the American South.

• was

• lilting

• best

• or

Find the linking verb in the passage

The passage is an excerpt from "The Struggle to Be an All-American Girl" by Elizabeth Wong:

The voice belonged to my grandmother, a fragile woman in her seventies who could outshout the best of the street vendors. Her humor was raunchy, her Chinese rhythmless, patternless. It was quick, it was loud, it was unbeautiful. It was not like the quiet, lilting romance of French or the gentle refinement of the American South.

• was

• not

• my

• or

Find the linking verb in the passage

The passage is an excerpt from "The Struggle to Be an All-American Girl" by Elizabeth Wong:

The voice belonged to my grandmother, a fragile woman in her seventies who could outshout the best of the street vendors. Her humor was raunchy, her Chinese rhythmless, patternless. It was quick, it was loud, it was unbeautiful. It was not like the quiet, lilting romance of French or the gentle refinement of the American South.

• was

• rhythmless

• patternless

• refinement

Find the linking verb in the passage

The passage is an excerpt from "The Struggle to Be an All-American Girl" by Elizabeth Wong:

The voice belonged to my grandmother, a fragile woman in her seventies who could outshout the best of the street vendors. Her humor was raunchy, her Chinese rhythmless, patternless. It was quick, it was loud, it was unbeautiful. It was not like the quiet, lilting romance of French or the gentle refinement of the American South.

• was

• could

• quiet

• belonged

What is an action verb

• Expresses physical action or mental action

• Expresses a state of being

• Describes a noun