Exploring Main, Linking, and Helping Verbs

This video tutorial covers the different types of verbs: linking, helping, and main verbs. It explains how linking verbs connect the subject to additional information, such as a noun, pronoun, or adjective, and provides examples. Helping verbs are discussed in terms of their role in forming tenses and adding meaning to sentences. The video also touches on main verbs and concludes with a call to action for viewers to subscribe and watch the next episode.

What are the three types of verbs discussed in this video?

• Linking, Helping, and Main Verbs

• Action, Linking, and Modal Verbs

• Transitive, Intransitive, and Linking Verbs

• Regular, Irregular, and Helping Verbs

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CCSS.L.1.1E

CCSS.L.3.1A

CCSS.L.K.1B

What do linking verbs connect the subject to?

• Another verb

• A preposition

• A noun, pronoun, or adjective

• An adverb

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CCSS.L.1.1E

CCSS.L.1.4C

CCSS.L.2.6

CCSS.L.3.1A

CCSS.L.4.1B

In the sentence 'She is beautiful', what is the linking verb?

• None of the above

• Beautiful

• She

• Is

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CCSS.L.1.1E

CCSS.L.1.4C

CCSS.L.2.6

CCSS.L.3.1A

CCSS.L.4.1B

Which of the following verbs can act as both action and linking verbs?

• Jump

• Look

• Write

• Run

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CCSS.L.1.1E

CCSS.L.3.1A

CCSS.L.K.1B

In the sentence 'She looks at the painting', what type of verb is 'looks'?

• Main verb

• Helping verb

• Linking verb

• Action verb

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CCSS.L.1.1E

CCSS.L.1.4C

CCSS.L.2.6

CCSS.L.3.1A

CCSS.L.4.1B

How can you differentiate between linking verbs and helping verbs?

• Linking verbs are followed by a noun, pronoun, or adjective

• Helping verbs show action

• Helping verbs are followed by a noun, pronoun, or adjective

• Linking verbs come before the main verb

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CCSS.L.1.1E

CCSS.L.1.4C

CCSS.L.2.6

CCSS.L.3.1A

CCSS.L.4.1B

What is the role of helping verbs in a sentence?

• To show action

• To connect the subject to more information

• To describe a state of being

• To help the main verb show tenses

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CCSS.L.1.1E

CCSS.L.1.4C

CCSS.L.2.6

CCSS.L.3.1A

CCSS.L.4.1B

Which of the following is an example of a helping verb?

• Run

• Can

• Look

• Beautiful

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CCSS.L.1.1E

CCSS.L.1.4C

CCSS.L.2.6

CCSS.L.3.1A

CCSS.L.4.1B

How do you form a negative sentence with a helping verb?

• Add 'not' to the helping verb

• Add 'not' at the end of the sentence

• Add 'not' to the main verb

• Place 'not' before the subject

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CCSS.L.1.1J

CCSS.L.2.1F

CCSS.L.4.1C

What are main verbs?

• Verbs that come after helping verbs

• Verbs that show a state of being

• Verbs that come before helping verbs

• Verbs that connect the subject to more information

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CCSS.L.1.1E

CCSS.L.1.4C

CCSS.L.2.6

CCSS.L.3.1A

CCSS.L.4.1B