All About Verbs Grammar Unit

The Principal Parts of a Verb

• A verb is a word that shows action or state of being.

• An action verb expresses mental or physical activity. – Ex. think, speak

• A linking verb is a verb that joins the a subject of a sentence with a word or phrase that renames or describes the subject. – Ex. as, be, seem

Verb Links

• List of regular verbs• List of irregular verbs - part 1• List of irregular verbs - part 2• All About Verbs

Regular versus Irregular

Verb Tense

Tense

• A tense is a verb form that shows the time of an action or condition.

• Present Tense: Expressed an action as it happens, or that happens regularly, or is generally true.– Present Perfect: Shows than an action was completed at an

indefinite time(s) in the past, or started in the past but continues in the present.

• Past Tense: Expresses an action that occurred in the past.– Past Perfect: Shows that an action preceded another action

in the past. • Future Tense: Expresses an action that will occur in the future.

– Future Perfect: Shows that an action in the future will precede another future action.

Using Verb Tense

Underlined Verb

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Verb Tense

1. __________________________

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Correcting Verb Tense

1. _______________________________2. _______________________________3. _______________________________4. _______________________________5. _______________________________6. _______________________________7. _______________________________

Using Principal Parts of Regular and Irregular Verbs

1. Molly is _______________ for a dish to replace a broken piece. (___)

2. At garage sales, people ________________ out incomplete sets of dishes. (___)

3. At the garage sale, the owners were ___________________ dishes on a table. (___)

4. The sellers ___________________ they would sell a dish to Molly for $15. (___)

Using Principal Parts of Regular and Irregular Verbs

1. Last week I ___________________ my finger, and it hasn’t healed yet. (___)

2. Our pitcher has just ___________________ the ball to third base. (___)

3. When I ___________________ you that book, I expected you to return it. (___)

4. Who ___________________ all those dogs to the park? (___)

5. My brother-in-law is ___________________ an excellent salary. (___)

Using Principal Parts of Regular and Irregular Verbs

6. When the dishwasher __________________, we washed the dishes by hand. (___)

7. Their dog had ___________________ a baseball from a nearby yard. (___)

8. Have you ___________________ this new cordless phone? (___)

9. The gossips reported everything that Miranda ___________________ to George. (___)

10. According tot eh witnesses, nobody had _________________ into the room for over an hour. (___)