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Verb Assignment
Part A: Short answer.
Directions: Use your notes to provide the best answer for the following questions.
1. What is an action verb?
2. What is a linking verb?
3. How many forms of linking verbs are there?
4. What are they?
5. List three of each:
6. What is a verb phrase?
7. List the two “formulas” for creating verb phrases.
8. Provide one example of each kind of verb phrase.
9. In a verb phrase, which verb do you look at to determine whether it is action or linking?
Part B: Identifying verbs and verb phrases in sentences
Directions: Underline the verb and boldface the verb phrase in each of the following
sentences. If there is only one verb in the sentence, identify each verb as action (A) or
linking (L) on the line to the right of each sentence.
1. King Kong may be the most famous monster movie ever. ______
2. At the start of the film, a producer is planning a movie. ______
3. He and a film crew sail to Skull Island. ______
4. There they find a giant ape, Kong. ______
5. Kong falls in love with Ann, the movie’s star. ______
6. The producer takes Kong to New York in chains. ______
7. Kong escapes from his chains. ______
8. He climbs to the top of the Empire State Building. ______
9. There, he must struggle against fighter planes. ______

2. 10. Kong’s enemies win in the end. ______
11. The filmmakers created the graphics on computers. ______
12. The ants in the movie behave a lot like people. ______
13. Real ants, of course, are nothing like the ones in this film. ______
14. In the movie, a worker ant falls in love with a princess ant. ______
15. The worker and the princess escape to the outside world. ______
16. However, their home colony faces a serious threat. ______
17. The whole ant population appears in danger of destruction. ______
18. The worker and the princess return to the colony just in time! ______
19. The humble worker becomes a hero to the other ants. ______
20. A hurricane is a powerful tropical storm. _____
21. For a hurricane, the water temperature must be warm. ______
22. He had received the entry form in the mail. _____
23. The mail rarely arrives on time during the holidays. _____
24. Under the right conditions, any tropical story can become a hurricane. _____
25. Temperature measurements are the goal of hurricane trackers. _____
26. Bart accepted John’s apology about the mix up. _____
27. On the address, the sender had written illegibly. _____
28. Morris dropped the letter at the post office. _____
29. Roads will be closed next week due to dangerous weather conditions. _____
30. Christine writes well. _____
31. Hurricanes are dangerous over land. _____
32. A surge is a quick rise in the ocean’s water level. _____
33. The winds of a hurricane sound deafening. _____
34. China is a country in the Eastern Hemisphere. _____
35. The air smelled fresh after the rain storm. _____