VERB

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Action, Help
ing, & Linkin
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What is a VERB?
A verb is a word used to express an
action, a condition, or a state of being.

Action Verbs
Action verbs tell what the
subject does.
Example:
The roller coaster climbs up the hill.
Some people hate amusement parks.

Linking Verbs
A linking verb links its subject to
additional information about the
subject

The most common linking verbs are forms of the

verb to be.
Forms of Be: be, am, is/are, was/were, been,
being
Example: The Cyclone is a roller coaster.
IS = the linking verb that links Cyclone to roller coaster

Helping Verbs and

Verb Phrases
Helping verbs help the main verb express
precise shades of meaning.

The combination of one or more helping verbs with

a main verb is called a verb phrase.
Example:
Many people will ride the Cyclone this weekend.

Verb
forms

All forms of a verb are built upon

the three principal parts:

The present infinitive (without to),

The past tense form, and
The past participle

Principal Parts or Some Troublesome Verbs

INFINITIVE

PAST TENSE

PAST PARTICIPLE

Awake

Awoke, awaked

Awoke, awaked

Grow

Grew

Grown

Choose

Chose

Chosen

Dive

Dived, dove

Dived

Hang (to suspend)

Hung

Hung

Ring

Rang

Rung

Shine (to give light)

Shone

Shone

Shrink

Shrank, shrunk

Shrunk, shrunken

Sink

Sank, sunk

Sunk

Swing

Swung

Swung

Take

Took

taken

Verb
tenses

What are VERB TENSES?

Verb tenses let us know when the action
happens.

There are 3 simple tenses:

Present Tense
Example: I ace tests sometimes, but not enough.

Past Tense
Example: I aced the test yesterday.

Future Tense
Example: I know I will ace the test tomorrow.

Perfect and Progressive

Perfect and Progressive forms
indicate more complex time frames.
Present Perfect indicates an action that began in
the past but is continuing into the present.
Progressive means the action continuous for a
while.

Six Verb Tenses

Present tense: I eat pizza often.
Past tense: I ate pizza last night.
Future tense: I will eat pizza later today.
Present perfect tense: I have eaten pizza many

times.
Past perfect tense: I had eaten pizza just
before
you arrived.
Future perfect tense: I will have eaten pizza at
least a million times by
the year of 2016.

Six Progressive Verb

Tenses
Present progressive: I am eating pizza.
Past progressive : I was eating pizza when you

called.
Future progressive: I will be eating pizza at 8:30
tonight.
Present perfect progressive: I have been eating
pizza all day.
Past perfect progressive: I had been eating pizza for
three hours when Mom said my
eyes looked like pepperonis.
Future perfect progressive: I will have been eating pizza
for five hours nonstop when
bedtime rolls down.

Regular Verbs
Regular verbs are verbs that form its past
tense and past participle by adding d or
ed or sometimes t to the base form.
Examples: help-helped, talk-talked, open-opened
burn-burnt, dwell-dwelt

Irregular Verbs
Irregular verbs usually form the past tense
and the past participle by a change in the
root vowel.

Examples: drink-drank-drunk

For an irregular verb like think, the past tense and

the past participle would be thought.
Another example: see-saw-seen