VERBS

Prepared by:Baibon Aiza Gani

READ THE PASSAGE:

List down all action words you can find in the passage.

The rim of fire is an arc stretching from New Zealand, along the eastern edge of the Asia, north across the Aleutian island of Alaska, and south along the coast of north and south America. It is composed of over 75% of the world’s active and dormant volcanoes.

This huge ring of volcanoes and seismic (earthquake) activity was noticed and described before the invention of the tectonic plate theory. We now know that the ring of fire is located at the borders of the Pacific Plate and other major tectonic plates.

Plates are like giant rafts of earth’s surface. Around the ring of fire the pacific plate is colliding with and sliding underneath other plates. This process is known as subduction, and volcanically and seismically active area nearby is known as a subduction zone.

This colliding plates create a tremendous amount of energy and easily melt rock into magma, which rises to the surface as lava and forms volcanoes.

ANSWERS:

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VERBS

- are words that show action or tell what the subject does.

WHAT ARE THE KINDS OF VERBS?

There are TWO kinds of verbs.

1)ACTION VERBS

2)LINKING VERBS

ACTION VERBS -tell what the subject is doing

Examples:

work build plan

study pray join

test play deal

During World War II, many women the US worked wartime industries. They built tanks and tested airplanes to help win the war.

LINKING VERBS -connect a subject to a noun or an adjective in the predicate

Examples:

Forms of be

be, is are, was,were, am,

been, being

Other linking verbs

appear, become, feel, grow, look,

remain, seem, smell, sound,

taste

Jerome and Edward are best friends.

Do this activity:

Using verbs make a sentence out of the pictures.

Find the Action words in the sentence

1. I gracefully jumped over the old rotten log.

2. Bea ran as she could to the store.

3. Bill and Jim carried the heaviest load of bricks.

4. The fire started in the basement in a pile of rags.

5. The world revolves around the sun in 364 days.

6. I walk to the store and get milk every morning.

7. Look at those Fireworks!8. The newborn baby cried for

most of the evening.9. I ran after the ice cream

truck.10. Roger stood up to recite

the pledge of alligence.