Action, Linking, and Helping Verbs

Mrs. Baker is forty-two years old.

• action verb
• linking verb
• helping verb

She works at an automobile manufacturing plant in Michigan.

• action verb
• linking verb
• helping verb

3. She has been working there for twenty years.

• action verb
• linking verb
• helping verb

In twenty more years, she will retire.

• action verb
• linking verb
• helping verb

Mr. Baker was forty-two years old last year.

• action verb
• linking verb
• helping verb

6. He is a year older than Mrs. Baker.

• action verb
• linking verb
• helping verb

He is a librarian at a school library.

• action verb
• linking verb
• helping verb

He finds books for students.

• action verb
• linking verb
• helping verb

He has been helping students for fifteen years.

• action verb
• linking verb
• helping verb

He likes his job.

• action verb
• linking verb
• helping verb