This document reviews the three types of verbs: action verbs, linking verbs, and helping verbs. It provides examples for each type and exercises to identify them in sentences. Action verbs express physical or mental actions, like "run" or "think." Linking verbs connect subjects to nouns or adjectives, like forms of "to be." Helping verbs work with a main verb to show actions, like "can" in "can speak." The document provides detailed explanations and practice identifying each verb type.

1. Verbs
Review of the three types.

2. What’s a verb?
•Verbs express an action
Ex: bring, change, grow, consider
•Verbs express an occurrence
Ex: become, happen, occur
•Verbs express a state of being
Ex: be, seem, remain

3. There are three kinds
of VERBS
1. Action verbs
2. Linking verbs
3. Helping verbs

4. 1. Action Verbs

5. Action Verbs
•Tell what action is occurring in a
sentence.
•Express a mental or physical
activity.
•Answer the question: “What is the
subject doing?”

6. cough
gulp
awoke
runningride
sing
clapped
These are all physical action verbs:

7. think
focus
wonder
daydreaminglearned
remember
loved
These are all mental action verbs:

8. Action Verbs Practice
•What is the subject doing? Find the
action verb:
1. He spoke French.
2. I wandered around the room
yesterday.
3. The children leapt out of bed on
Christmas morning.

9. Answers:
•What is the subject doing? Find the
action verb:
1. He spoke French.
2. I wandered around the room
yesterday.
3. The children leapt out of bed on
Christmas morning.

10. 2. Linking Verbs

11. Linking Verbs…
• do not show an action; they show a relationship.
• link or connect the subject of the sentence with a
noun or an adjective in the sentence.
subject LV noun
EX: You are a seventh grader.
subject LV adjective
EX: Seventh grade is difficult.

12. Linking Verbs = to be
•All forms of the verb “to be” are
linking verbs.
examples:
• am is are
• was were be
• being been became

13. Let’s Put it Together…
• Find the ACTION and LINKING VERB(S)…
There are thirteen people at my birthday
party.
Victor said his friend was strange.

14. Let’s Put it Together…
• Find the ACTION and LINKING VERB(S)…
• Answers:
LV
• There are thirteen people attending my birthday
party.
AV LV
• Victor said his friend was strange.

15. 3. Helping Verbs
Help me!

16. Helping Verbs…
• work with a main verb to help show what action is taking place.
This is called a verb phrase.
• In a verb phrase, the main verb could be action or linking
• There could be more than one helping verb in a sentence.
• Examples: Helping Verb(s) + Main Verb = Verb Phrase
Artists can train others to draw.
I will be there.
The student had been working on homework.
The techniques could have been altered a little.

17. 23 Helping Verbs

18. Helping Verb Practice:
Directions: Identify the verb phrase.
What are the helping verb(s) and main
verb within it?
1. You can speak loudly in the gym.
 Verb phrase: can speak
 Helping verb: can
 Main verb: speak
2. The dog must have been chasing the cat.
 Verb phrase: must have been chasing
 Helping verbs: must, have, been
 Main verb: chasing

19. Directions: Underline the verb(s) in each sentence.
Label its type (AV, LV, or HV).
1. On a sunny September afternoon, we traveled to the
library.
2. We parked and locked our bicycles in the rack at the
library.
3. Many resources were available there.
4. I considered several books about wild animals.
5. All of the books had looked interesting.

20. KEY:
Action Verbs
Linking Verbs
Helping Verbs
1. On a sunny September afternoon, we traveled to the
library.
2. We parked and locked our bicycles in the rack at the
library.
3. Many resources were available there.
4. I considered several books about wild animals.
5. All of the books had looked interesting.

21. Look at your PCR book…

22. Homework…
Finish side 2 by tomorrow.