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This presentation introduces the types of verbs. This includes helping and linking verbs.
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1. Types of Verbs A verb is a word that shows action or links a subject to another word in a sentence.
2. Types of Verbs There are three types of verbs Action Linking Helping
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3. Action Verbs Action verbs tell what the subject is doing. Examples: Ran Hide Walk Swim
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4. Linking Verbs Linking verbs connect or link a subject to a noun or an adjective in the predicate.
Common Linking verbs: Is Were Subject Are Being Was Been Noun Mark is a football player. Am
5. Linking Verbs Verbs such as smell, look, taste, feel, remain, turn, appear, become, sound, seem,
grow, and stay can also be linking verbs. How do you know if it is linking or action? One trick to
identifying linking verbs is that any linking verb can be replaced by a be verb without changing the
meaning of the sentence.
6. Be verbs include: be, is, am, are, was, and were. For example, in the sentence, Your feet smell
bad, you know that smell is a linking verb because you could replace it with a be verbYour feet
are bad. On the other hand, in the sentence, I smell pizza, smell cant be a linking verb because I
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7. Helping Verbs Helping verbs help the main verb express tense and voice. Helping verbs need an
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8. Helping Verbs There are three primary helping verbs: be (is, am, are, was, were, been), have (has,
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9. Helping Verbs The other type of helping verbs are called modal helping verbs. We use them to
modify or specify the meaning or attitude of the main verb in some way. These are the modal verbs:
Can, Could, Might, Will, Would, Shall, Should, Must, Ought to Examples: You should read this
book. The book might change your life. They must have been watching the movie without you.
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