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AZ 4.L.1b - Action Verbs, State-of-being Verbs, Regular and Irregular Verbs

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Action verbs ___________________.

describe a condition

describe a physical or mental action

none of the above

help the main verb describe the action

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What is the action verb in the following sentence: Sally walks to school.

walks

to

Sally

school

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State-of-being verbs are also called __________.

linking verbs

words of being

helping verbs

action verbs

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What are the eight state-of-being verbs?

am, is, are, she, were, he, us, been

none of the above

there, their, them, I, she, he, they, us

am, is, are, was, were, be, being, been

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State-of-being verbs are action verbs.

False

True

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What do state-of-being verbs tell you?

All of the above

They tell you the action the subject is doing.

They tell you the movement of the subject in the sentence.

They tell that the subject is or is being something.

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Find the action verb in the following sentence: Aesop wrote many fables.

wrote

many

fables

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Find the action verb in the following sentence: The cheese fell toward the ground.

cheese

fell

toward

ground

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Find the action verb in the following sentence: Mr. Fox laughed at the crow.

crow

at

laughed

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Find the "being" verb in the following sentence: Tom said, "I am hungry."

said

am

hungry

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Find the "being" verb in the following sentence: Tom and Lydia were full after their snack.

were

snack

eating

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Find the "being" verb in the following sentence: I will be in fifth grade next year.

grade

will be

will

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What are the two forms of present tense?

action and state-of-being verb forms

irregular and regular verb form

none of the above

plain form and s-form

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To change most plain-form verbs to the s-form, add -s.

False

True

20

For present tense verbs that end in sh, ch, s, x, or z add _____ at the end.

all of the above

-es

-s

-ly

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For present tense verbs that end in a consonant and y, change y to i and add _____ to the end.

-s

-ness

-es

-ly

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