Exploring Action and Linking Verbs

The video tutorial covers the basics of verbs, focusing on action and linking verbs. It begins with an introduction to verbs, followed by a detailed explanation of action verbs with examples. The tutorial then shifts to linking verbs, providing examples and a list of common linking verbs. Students are given practice exercises to identify linking verbs in sentences. The tutorial aims to help students distinguish between action and linking verbs and understand their usage in sentences.

What is an action verb?

• A verb that tells what action someone or something is performing.

• A verb that describes a state of being.

• A verb that links two words in a sentence.

• A verb that modifies a noun.

Which of the following is an example of an action verb?

• Is

• Run

• Are

• Was

In the sentence 'The earliest known inhabitants of New Mexico arrived around 10,000 years ago,' what is the action verb?

• Known

• Inhabitants

• Years

• Arrived

In the sentence 'The Pueblo people inhabited Adobe dwellings,' what is the action verb?

• People

• Inhabited

• Adobe

• Dwellings

What is a linking verb?

• A verb that describes an adjective.

• A verb that modifies a noun.

• A verb that tells what action someone or something is performing.

• A verb that links or joins two or more words in a sentence.

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

• Is

• Run

• Jump

• Drive

In the sentence 'Sam Houston was president of Texas from 1841 to 1844,' what is the linking verb?

• Sam

• Was

• President

• Houston

Which of the following is NOT a common linking verb?

• Become

• Feel

• Appear

• Run

In the sentence 'New Mexico was physically larger in the last century,' what is the linking verb?

• Was

• Mexico

• Larger

• New

In the sentence 'Hazleton is an industrial city in central Pennsylvania,' what is the linking verb?

• Is

• Industrial

• City

• Hazleton