Kinds of VERBS Prepared by: Baibon Aiza M. Gani

READ THE PASSAGE: List down all verbs you can find in the passage.

The rim of fire is an arc stretching from New Zealand, along the eastern edge of the Asia, north across the Aleutian island of Alaska, and south along the coast of north and south America. It is composed of over 75% of the world’s active and dormant volcanoes.

This huge ring of volcanoes and seismic (earthquake) activity was noticed and described before the invention of the tectonic plate theory. We now know that the ring of fire is located at the borders of the Pacific Plate and other major tectonic plates.

Plates are like giant rafts of earth’s surface. Around the ring of fire the pacific plate is colliding with and sliding underneath other plates. This process is known as subduction, and volcanically and seismically active area nearby is known as a subduction zone.

This colliding plates create a tremendous amount of energy and easily melt rock into magma, which rises to the surface as lava and forms volcanoes.

VERBS is know was are create melt rises forms

VERBS - are words that show action or tell what the subject does. Examples: watch cut read grow climb buy sing walk

WHAT ARE THE KINDS OF VERBS? WHAT ARE THE KINDS OF VERBS?

There are TWO kinds of verbs 1)ACTION VERBS 2)LINKING VERBS

ACTION VERBS -tell what the subject is doing -tell what the subject is doingExamples: work build plan work build plan study pray join study pray join test play deal test play deal

1. Jonathan knows how to ride a bike. 2. She wanted to talk to his boss. 3. He went to the post office. 4. His wife worked in the house. 5. I bought a blue car today.

ACTIVITY Find the Action words in the sentence 1. I gracefully jumped over the old rotten log. - jumped 2. Bea ran as she could to the store. - ran 3. Bill and Jim carried the heaviest load of bricks. - carried 4. The fire started in the basement in a pile of rags. - started 5. The world revolves around the sun in 364 days. - revolves

LINKING VERBS - connect a subject to a noun or an adjective in the predicate

Examples: Forms of be be, is are, was, were, am, been, being Other linking verbs appear, become, feel, grow, look, remain, seem, smell, sound, taste

1. America is the home of the brave. 2. They are a very happy family. 3. Today I am going to the store. 4. Today is a sunny day. 5. She was happy with her house

ACTIVITY Find the Linking verb in the sentence 1. I felt nervous. - felt - felt 2. She is reading while walking. - is - is 3. My favorite subject is English. - is - is 4. You are not a poet. - are - are 5.Piolo was my favorite actor before. - was - was

Do this activity: Based on the pictures, make a sentence using verb.

In a whole sheet of paper Make/construct 10 sentences using linking verbs and draw/name at least 5 action words