1. What verbs can you use to tell what she’s doing?
Action Verbs
Chapter 2 ･ Verbs and Adverbs ･ p. 25
Action verbs show action. Sometimes you can’t see the action even though it’s happening, as with to think or to know.
What verbs can you use to tell what she’s doing?
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2. Linking Verbs
Chapter 2 ･ Verbs and Adverbs ･ p. 27
Boring linking verbs connect, or “link” the subject of a sentence to a word that follows it and refers back to the subject. The most common linking verbs are the forms of to be.
Fluffy’s hairball is hefty.
“Is” links the subject, hairball, to the adjective, hefty.
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3. Verb Phrase
Chapter 2 ･ Verbs and Adverbs ･ p. 31
A verb phrase consists of one or more helping verbs followed by a main verb. These verbs join together to act as one verb.
Bozo is making balloon marsupials for the children. Is-helping verb, making-main verb, is making-verb phrase.
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4. Adverbs
Chapter 2 ･ Verbs and Adverbs ･ p. 35
An adverb is a single word that modifies, adds details or describes verbs, adjectives, and other adverbs.
Adverbs answer where, when, how, to what extent.
What question do these adverbs answer?
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