Verbs

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Verbs

• Express Action or
• State of Being

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Action Verbs

• Actions include both physical and mental acts.
• Express action in one of two ways.
• Transitive action is directed toward a person,
  place, or thing.
• Passes from the doer (subject) to the receiver of
  the action (object).
• Intransitive action that is not directed toward
  a particular person, place, or thing by the doer.
• Does NOT pass from the doer (subject) to the
  receiver of the action (object).

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Linking

• Express a state of being by connecting the
  subject to a word or word group that identifies
  or describes the subject.
• Forms of the verb be. Examples- is, are, were,
  was, am, etc PLUS other types of verbs found on
  p. 17.
• A linking verb MUST be followed by what is called
  a subject complement, which is a noun or pronoun
  that names the subject or an adjective that
  describes the subject.

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Verb Phrases

• Verb phrase one main verb one or more helping
  verbs, which help the main verb express action or
  state of being (p. 391)
• NOTE the word not is an adverb, not a verb.
  It is never considered to be part of a verb
  phrase.
• Example- I could not see the road.
• Example- The dog will not listen to anyone but
  its owner.
• Example- The man had said that he didnt see
  anyone at the house on the night of the murder.