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Common Core Skills Practice: Grammar Lesson #3: Verbs

This document provides a lesson on identifying verbs in English. It defines a verb as a word that names an action, process, or state of being. It then lists 3 rules for identifying verbs: 1) verbs can take -s and -ing endings, 2) verbs can be used with auxiliary verbs, and 3) verbs change tense between past, present and future. Examples are given that demonstrate changing the verb in a sentence between tenses. The document also distinguishes between action verbs and linking verbs, and provides a test to identify the two types by replacing the verb with "is", "am", or "are".

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Common Core Skills Practice: Grammar Lesson #3: Verbs

This document provides a lesson on identifying verbs in English. It defines a verb as a word that names an action, process, or state of being. It then lists 3 rules for identifying verbs: 1) verbs can take -s and -ing endings, 2) verbs can be used with auxiliary verbs, and 3) verbs change tense between past, present and future. Examples are given that demonstrate changing the verb in a sentence between tenses. The document also distinguishes between action verbs and linking verbs, and provides a test to identify the two types by replacing the verb with "is", "am", or "are".

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Common Core Skills Practice:

Grammar Lesson #3
Adapted from resources available on
Lettieres English on the Web: dukeofdefinition.com
DEFINITION:
A verb is a word that names an
action, a process, or state of
being
1. Verbs can always apply
both s and ing endings.
For example:
! walk walks, walking
! go goes, going
! think thinks, thinking

2. All verbs can function with
an auxiliary/helping verb.
! Auxiliary verbs include have, be,
do, will, and must.
For example:
! walk will walk
! go have gone
! think have thought
3. Verbs change tenses.
Try the yesterday, right now, and tomorrow
test when determining if a word is a verb.

Verb Yesterday Right Now Tomorrow
walk I walked I walk I will walk
go I went I go I will go
think I thought I think I will think
Use Rule #3 to find the main
verb in a sentence.
For example:
! Madison wonders what she might do now she was fired.
What is the main verb?
! Yesterday, Madison wondered what she might do.
! Right now, Madison wonders what she might do.
! Tomorrow, Madison wonders what she will do.
In order for the sentences to sound right, the main
verb needs to change tense.
Types of Verbs
! Action verbs express a physical (run) or
mental (think) action.
! Linking verbs link the subject to its
complement.
" The most common linking verb: is.
" To be can be conjugated into is, was, were,
and am, which are also linking verbs.
" Other linking verbs are appear, look, sound,
and taste.
Testing for linking and action
! Replace it with the words is, am, or are.
Sentence Replacement Verb Type
The band sounds good. The band is good. linking
The captain sounded an
alarm.
The captain is an
alarm.
action
Practicing identification
! The bird chirped at the squirrel.
! John believed he was losing his mind.
! Please come out to see our show.

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