Verbs: Action, Helping, and Linking

1. Verbs: Action, Helping, and Linking Verbs: Action, Helping, and Linking A Classroom Cooperative

2. What is an Action Verb? Action verb are words that express something that a person, animal, or object can do. Video To view the video click Here Definition by Taiki Furukawa, Video, pic by Andrew Yun

3. Ask yourself, Is this something a person, or thing can do? Example 1: The solar clock never stops running. Running issomething that the alarm clock can do. Example 2: The coffee maker buzzed on the kitchen counter. 2.You can see action verb after the subject. coffee maker buzzed How can we find Action Verbs? By: Tony Kim, Jonah McLaughlin

4. Adding “ing” makes a verb leap into motion! • Type=Typing( I am typing the word type.) Examples of Action Verbs by Kazuki and Rose Click hereto watch our songs

5. Action Verbs Activity 1: Verb practice Action Verb Practice: Click Here I searched for the resource, and Richard helped me put the website on the Powerpoint. Richard & Johny

6. Action Verbs: Activity 2 Paulina & Joana Click here for printable copy

7. What are helping verbs? Typing&search by: Richard, Tony A verb that comes before the main in a sentence. They accomplish this by giving more detail to how time is portrayed in a sentence. A helping verb always stands in front of a main verb. For example, in the sentence Tae Yun can ride his brother’s bicycle, the helping verb is can and the main verb is ride.

8. Example&List of helping verbs Helping Verb Song Example and list: can, have, am, do, be, shall, will, is, may, could, has, are, does, being, should, would, might, had, did, been, was, must, were Example: I can throw the chair. But, I will not throw the chair. I might get in trouble.

9. How do we find them? Commonly, the word before the action verb is the helping verb! Tony is drawing a picture of a lion.

10. Helping Verbs Activity • Helping Verbs: Can You Choose the Right Word? • Rules to Remember: Helping Verbs Activity Click Here for a List of all 23 Helping Verbs! Bingo Title, worksheet1 by Andrew, ppt, hyper link, worksheet 2 by Taiki

11. Linking Verbs Definition: They connect or link the subject of the verb. It does not express the action verb. How do we find them? If we can change am, is,or are and the sentence still makes sense, we can tell that it is a Linking Verb. Rose & Joana

12. How to play the bingo? First, fill the box with helping verbs. Next, someone will say the helping verb. If you have the word that the person called, cross it out. If you got a line on the chart, you win!

13. But how do you tell when these words are being used as an action verb and when they are connecting the subject of the verb to more information? It’s not as difficult as you may think. One handy little trick is to see if you can substitute is, and, or are and see if the sentence still makes sense. If it does then you’re dealing with a linking verb. If it doesn’t make sense after the substitution, then it’s an action verb. Here are a few examples of this trick in action:

14. Forms of to be are sometimes used as linking verbs is
am
are
was
were
be
being
been Verbs that are sometimes used as linking verbs feel
taste
look
smell
appear
grow
remain
stay
turn
seem
sound
become
prove Linking verbs 1.Larry looks happy. (looks is a linking verb; happy is a complement that describes and identifies Larry, the subject) 2.The play was good. (was is a linking verb; good is a complement that describes and identifies the play, the subject Click here to watch the video. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1IJWvHZcOU Jonah tipped the words and Johny searched resources