Verbs

1. Verbs Show me the action!

2. What is a verb? • A verb expresses the action or condition of a person, place, or thing. • A sentence must contain a verb for it to be a completethought. • Bob jumped onto the desk. • He shouted to the class. • The class quivered in fear. • The desk cracked. • Bob fell. • The class chuckled.

3. Action Verbs • An action verb indicates the action of a person or thing. • The action can be visible (seen) or mental (unseen). • Examples: • Bob wrote the poem. • Everyone believes in the Tooth Fairy. • Bob ate the giant cockroach.

4. iTry • Identify the action verb(s) in the sentences below. • We swam across the ocean. • Computers replaced typewriters many years ago. • My sister would not share her toys, so I hit her. • Eventually, my dog died. • I cried because my dog died.

5. Transitive Verbs • Transitive verb: An action verb that has a direct object. • Without a direct object, its meaning is incomplete. • The direct object is never in a prepositional phrase. • I gave birthday presents to my twin cousins. • gave is a transitive verb • presents is the direct object (answers WHAT was given) • Sue helped her motherwash the dishes in the sink after dinner. • helped andwashed are transitive verbs • mother and dishes are the direct objects

6. Intransitive Verbs • Intransitive verbs: They express actions that cannot have a direct object. • There often is a prepositional phrase or adverb after the verb. • Examples: • The train from Montreal arrived four hours late. • Jack fell on the rocks in the alley.

7. iTryTransitive or Intransitive • Baseball is played at the stadium. • I’m rooting for the shortstop. • He runs quickly after the ball. • Then, he spins around and throws to first base. • The runner beats the runner to the base. • Our team has beaten this team before. • After the final play, they congratulate each other. • The players take off and head to the showers.

8. Direct Objects • A Direct object is a noun(s) or pronoun(s) that completes the action of the verb. • It receives the action. • Direct objects answer “who?” or “what?” • Direct objects only follow TRANSITIVE action verbs! • Example: The dog licked the teacher. VERB DIRECT OBJECT

9. Direct Object Examples… • Zippy and Maurice played soccer with a grapefruit pulled from a backyard tree. • Zippy, Maurice = subjects; played = verb. Zippy and Maurice played what?Soccer = direct object. • Zippy accidentally kicked Maurice in the shin. • Zippy = subject; kicked = verb. Zippy kicked who?Maurice = direct object.

10. iTry • According to the instructions, we must leave this goo in our hair for twenty minutes. • The audience attentively watched the latest production of Macbeth. • Every spring, William moves all boxes and trunks from one side of the attic to the other.

11. Indirect Objects • An indirect object is a noun or pronoun that indirectly receives the action. • The action happens to them or for them, but the indirect object does not actually receive the action. • “For whom am I doing this wonderful thing?” • Bob gave Gertrude a bottle to store her gas. • Bob gave the bottleto Gertrude. (NO I.O.!) • He sent the college his application. • He made his dog a pooper scooper.

12. iTryFind the simple subject, direct object, and prepositional phrase • The students of these lessons have studied subjects and verbs. • The hungry man ate, cake, pie, and rolls in the bakery!!! • John wants a bicycle and a wagon for Christmas. • Everyone at the party enjoyed the hamburgers, hot dogs, potato chips, and drinks. • Grandma left her umbrella and coat at our house.

13. A helping verb is a verb that comes before the main verb and adds to its meaning. Examples: He was leading the team to victory. He had been leading the team to victory. He should have been leading the team to victory. Helping Verbs: Am, are, is, was, were, be, being, been, have, has, had, can, could, do, does, did, may, might, must, shall, should, will, would Helping Verbs VERB PHRASE!

14. Verb Phrases • A verb phrase isone, two or three helping verbs combined with one main verb. The largest amount of verbs in a verb phrase is four. • Examples of verb phrases: • have given • should have given, • should have been given

15. iTry: Identify the MV and HV • He has given money to charity. • We should have studied harder for the test. • I could have been studying harder a week before the test. • We could go to the party. • Bob may be hiding from the police. • Vampires could eat you.

16. Separated Verbs • A helping verb and main verb may not always be together side by side . • Examples • have not (adverb) been eating • will probably(adverb) bestudying • shouldn’t( adverb) be going

17. iTry • We have probably eaten all of the cookies. • The show must have ended an hour ago. • She might have stopped the video too soon. • Sally may have been trying to take my paper. • Bob should definitely have passed this test easily. • I may not redo the homework.

18. Verbs in a Question • In an interrogative sentence, the verbs will be separated by another word that is not a verb. The helping verb will start off the sentence. • Examples • Should I go with you to the mall? (Should-hv, go-mv) • Will Mom pick us up after the game? (Will-hv- pick-mv) • Have we always traveled to the mountains in his spring? (Have-hv traveled-mv)

19. iTry Fill in the blanks with a helping verb and main verb • _____I _____ the night at Jane’s house? • _____ the bus____ us up in front of our house? • _____ the basketball team_____ the championship game ? • _____ I ______ my room right now?

20. Linking Verbs • A linking verb connects a noun or pronoun to a word that identifies or describes the noun are pronoun. • The most common linking verbs: be, am, are, is, was, were. • Bill is funny. • The puppies were smelly. • I am cool. • Other linking verbs: appear, become, feel, grow, look, remain, seem, smell, sound, stay, taste, turn

21. Linking Verbs iTry • Identify the linking verbs. • Laura is a historian. • The grapes taste like death. • The cake looks delicious! • We were at the store. • I am twelve.