What Is a Verb

What is a verb?

• A person, place, thing, or idea

• A word that describes a noun

• The action that is taking place in the sentence

Which of the following is a verb?

• run

• llama

• and

• they

Identify the verb in this sentence:

Sarah voted for the very first time.

• voted

• Sarah

• first

• very

Identify the verb in this sentence:

Write your name at the top of your paper.

• name

• your

• write

• paper

What is a verb?

• A person

• A place

• An action word

• A describing word

She is watering the plants.-What is the verb?

• She

• is

• watering

• plants

• None

Which is a verb?

• see

• eyes

Identify the verb in this sentence:

Austin and Ella slept all day.

• Ella

• Austin

• slept

• day

We ______ a board game together.

• jumped

• attacked

• motivated

• played

Identify the verb in this sentence:

The little boy ran across the street.

• ran

• little

• boy

• street