Midterm

Identify the verb in all caps as either action, linking, or helping. George Washington Carver WAS a great agricultural chemist.

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Identify the verb in all caps as either action, linking, or helping. He made discoveries that HAVE increased the wealth of our nation by hundreds of millions of dollars.

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Identify the verb in all caps as either action, linking, or helping. As a boy he would often SCAMPER off to the woods, where he would study the ways of plants and wildflowers.

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Identify the verb in all caps as either action, linking, or helping. Carver FOUGHT against poverty and prejudice for his education.

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Identify the verb in all caps as either action, linking, or helping. He WORKED his way through high school and college.

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Identify the verb in all caps as either action, linking, or helping. Carver's first laboratory was furnished with bottles and tin cans that he and his students HAD collected.

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Identify the verb in all caps as either action, linking, or helping. When the boll weevil WAS threatening the cotton crop, Carver suggested that farmers might instead plant peanuts.

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Identify the verb in all caps as either action, linking, or helping. They followed his advice but WERE soon producing more peanuts than they could sell.

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Identify the verb in all caps as either action, linking, or helping. Carver FELT responsible for this new problem and discovered over three hundred commercial uses for peanuts.

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Identify the word in all caps as either an adjective or an adverb: Too much walking up hills OFTEN made me tired.

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