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Unit 3Lesson
Action Verbs
Objectives:
Students will:
Identify action verbs
What are Action Verbs?
The main word in the predicate is the verb.
Most verbs are action verbs. An action verb shows what the subject
does or did. Example:
› The ball flew over the plate.› Jill pitches the ball. › Roberto swings the bat.› Roberto ran to first base.
What is the action verb in each sentence?
People admire Mildred Ella “Babe” Didrikson as an all round athlete.
At sixteen she joined an excellent women’s basketball team.
She scored a hundred points in one game!
During that same period, she won medals as a swimmer.
Which words are verbs?
She also set records as a figure skater.
Didrikson entered many track and field
events.
In the 1932 Olympics, she captured
three medals.
Sports reporters named her the
greatest woman athlete.
Which words are verbs?
He watches games on television.
Jack writes about sports for the school
newspaper.
His news stories cover different kinds
of events.
One of his stories described a bicycle
race.
Which words are verbs?
One of his stories cover different kinds
of events.
The cyclist raced around the track
many times.
In another event, runners jumped over
hurdles.
Which words are verbs?
Team sports excite Sally.
Last night he went to a hockey game.
The goalie missed an important shot.
Norman describes the exciting details
in his article.
Which words are verbs?
Kwon Li Streaks Across Finish
Line
Beloved Pitcher Returns as
Coach
Dukes Dribble Their Way to
Championship
Which words are verbs?
Cobras Squeeze Victory from
Eagles
Sprained Finger Injures
Barbosa’s Game
Angry Coach Suspends Evans
for Season
Homework
WB pgs. 36-37