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Action Verbs
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1/ Action Verbs
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2. Action Verb An action verb is a word that describes
what someone or something does. It may contain more than one word.
Examples:
The director shouts at the cast members.
The lights are flashing above the stage.

3. Action verbs can be physical,visible actions:
-shout -dash -flash -hurt -arrive -sob -own -cackle -juggle -jeer -serenade -collide

4. Action verbs can also be mental actions:
-remember -memorize -forget -appreciate -evoke -realize -dream -convey -recognize -determine -evaluate -judge

5. Have, has, and had can also be action verbs IF they name what the subject owns or holds.
Examples: The actors already have their costumes. The director has a script in her hand. Rosa had a theater program from 1959.

6. Direct Object A direct object receives the action
from the verb. It answers the question
what? or whom? after an action verb.
Not every sentence has a direct
object.

7. Example: action verb & direct object
The equator divides Africa in two.
Is the verb visible or mental?

8. Example: action verb & direct object
Streams and wells create oases in the desert.
Is the verb visible or mental?

9. Example: action verb & direct object
Not even cars cross the sand dunes.
Is the verb visible or mental?

10. Example: action verb & NO direct object
In the eastern Sahara, the sun shines for thousands of hours every year.
Is the verb visible or mental?

11. Example: action verb & NO direct object
In flat regions the Nile River flows slowly.
Is the verb visible or mental?

12. Indirect Object An indirect object comes after the
action verb and before the direct
object. An indirect object answers the
question to whom? or for whom?

13. Example: action verb with indirect object & direct object
Jim built his granddaughter a sandcastle on the beach.
Indirect object – for whom
Direct object - what

14. Example: action verb with indirect object & direct object
We told Mom a lie about the broken lamp.
Direct object - what
Indirect object – for whom

15. Example: action verb with indirect object & direct object
Tomas paid the mechanic 200 dollars to fix the squeaky brakes.
Indirect object – for whom
Direct object - what

16. Transitive Verb Intransitive Verb
An action verb that is followed by a direct object.
The polar bears /eat fish.
Intransitive Verb
An action verb that is not followed by a direct object.
The polar bears /eat slowly.
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