Write about what you did last weekend.

Did you go outside? Did you go to the high school

football or soccer game? Did you celebrate

Halloween? In one paragraph, tell me about your
weekend.

 Verb
A word used to express an action,
a condition, or a state of being

 Tells what a subject does

The action can be visible

(physical) or invisible (mental)

You cannot see mental verbs

 Visible Verbs

ran, jumped, yells

Invisible

Verbs

forgot, guessed, sympathized

Main Verb
Expresses action or being in the sentence

Helping Verb
Work with the verb, but do not show action

Verb Phrase
All of the verbs helping & including the main verb

Help the main verb

Come before the main verb

Verb Phrase=Helping Verb(s) & Main Verb

Ex. have been walking

am
is
are
was
were
be
being
been
do
does
did

have
has
had
can
may
must
will
shall
could
might
would
should

Direct Object
Who or what receives the action of the verb
DO
DO can be a noun or a pronoun

Mr. Macari distributed uniforms to the team.

The school sent report cards home to update

parents.

Some people bought cards and books.

Transitive Verb
An ACTION VERB that has a DIRECT OBJECT

Intransitive Verb
An ACTION VERB with no direct object

Cody rode his bike down the gravel path.

This example would be TRANSITIVE.
Action verb- rode
Direct object-bike

Cody rode quickly down the gravel path.

This example would be INTRASITIVE.
Action verb- rode
NO DIRECT OBJECT
The word quickly is an adverb, not a noun so it cannot be a direct
object.

Being Verb
Show what the subject is or is like.
Does not show action

Forms of be

Linking Verb
Links the subject of a sentence to a word in

the predicate.

Link the SUBJECT to a word in the

predicate
Predicate Noun
Predicate Adjective

Predicate Noun Example

Ms. Chavers is our principal.

Predicate Adjective Example

Ms. Chavers was proud of student behavior.

 The cookie tasted very good.

The pumpkin looks fresh.

Some linking verbs can express actions.

Check to see how it is being used.

Example
Johnny looks upset today. He feels the cold

air and doesnt like it.

Around 1570 five Native American groups

became the Iroquois League.
Hiawatha and Dekanawidah were the
founders.
To them, a league appeared stronger than
one group alone.
In fact, the league seemed very successful.
It was the most advanced culture in the
Eastern Woodlands region of New York.

 A tense is a verb form that shows

the time of an action or condition.

Present Tense
I love cookies!

Occurs now

Past Tense
Was completed
I loved the cookies my grandma used to make.

Future Tense
Will occur in the future
I will love your cookies, too!

 Principal Parts of Verbs

Every verb has 4 basic parts

Present
Present Participle
Past
Past Participle

Present Tense

Present Perfect Tense

Action is happening now.

Students complete homework each day.

Present Perfect Tense

The action or condition in a stretch of time leading

up to present
has or have + past participle

The band has played at many football games.

Past Tense

Past Perfect Tense

Action already happened.

Cara studied for her test.

Past Perfect Tense

Action or condition is before another past action

or condition
had + past participle
The band had played for a long time together.

Future Tense

Future Perfect Tense

Action has not yet occurred.

Jason will study for his verbs test.

Future Perfect Tense

Places a future action or condition before another

future action or condition

will have + past participle
will have wondered

Action will happen before another future

action.
Jason will have studied for three days straight.

Use helping verbs

has/have (jumped)

=present perfect

had (jumped)

=past perfect

will have (jumped)

=future perfect

Regular Verbs
Follow a pattern

Irregular Verbs
Verbs whose past and past participle forms are

not made by adding ed or d to the present.

Do not follow a pattern

Regular Verbs
jump jumped

(has) jumped

Irregular Verbs
go
went

(has) gone

Review the charts on pages 139-140

Remember!
Only the past participle form requires a
helping verb
( ) means any helping verb

Subjects and verbs need to agree in number.

Compound Subjects joined by and are plural

Forms of be do not follow the rules

Present

is, are, has, does

She is on my team.

Past

was, were, have, do

They were on my team last season.

Agreement and Conjunctions

Eitheror
Neithernor
Agreement is made with the subject closest
to the verb.

Either Maria or the twins belong to a book

group.

Here or There
When a sentence begins with here or there,
restate the sentence to find the subject.
Here (is, are) my keys.
My keys (is, are) here.

Contractions are shortened forms of two

joined words.
Read words separately to make them agree.
Not is not a part of the verb.

Some pairs of verbs seem similar but are

different words with different meanings.

Lie and Lay

Sit and Set
Rise and Raise

Sit

(sit, sat, sat)

to be seated
Does not take an object

Ex.
We can sit on the floor.
The kids sat down.

Set

(set, set, set)

to put or place
Takes a direct object

Ex.
Please set the table.
Jane set up the game last week.

Lie

(lie, lay, lain)

to rest in a flat position

No direct object

Ex.
The cat has lain on the couch for hours.
I will lie down for a little while.

Lay

(lay, laid, laid)

to put or place something

Must be putting or placing an object

Ex.
I laid the book on the desk.
Sam lays the blankets out for everyone.

Rise

(rise, rose, risen)

to move upward or to get out of bed

Does not take an object

Ex.
The sun rises in the morning.
The flag has risen each morning of school.

Raise

(raise, raised, raised)

to lift or to care for or bring up

Takes an object

Ex.
He raised his arms over his head.
The clown raises the balloons into the sky.

Lend: to give temporarily

Borrow: to take temporarily

Let: to permit
Leave: to go away or to stay in one place

Teach: to give instruction

Learn: to get instruction