Verbs

It expresses an action or links important parts of a sentence together.

What does a verb do?

• The subject is who/what the sentence is about. It is usually your main noun.

• The predicate is the verb and anything else that tells us about the subject.​

subjects vs. predicates

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Larry Feels sick today.

Larry is who/what the sentence is about, so Larry is the SUBJECT.

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feels is the verb because it tells us what Larry is doing.​

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...feels sick today is the verb + the rest of the PREDICATE because it tells us information about Larry.

Subject | Subject

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Action verbs show what the subject is doing/has done/will do.

There are different kinds of ACTION verbs - DOING, SAYING, THINKING/FEELING.

​DOING - walk, talk, chew, dance, laugh

SAYING - whisper, scream, spoke, squealed​

THINKING/FEELING - depend, ​wonder, think, love

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ALL OF THEM ARE ACTION VERBS!​

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aka "State of Being" Verbs​

Their job is to connect--or LINK--the subject to its state of being.

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Which are action, and which are linking?

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Happy teaching!

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