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Who/what is "verbing"?

Linking Verbs are followed by one of these.

OR

Which Type of verb is it?

ACTION

Needs an Object to complete the thought.

Sometimes it is preceded by

INTRANSITIVE

IDENTIFYING the PARTS of a SENTENCE

Beware of the OOPs!

(Object of a Preposition)

First figure out what is happening in the sentence. That will be the

BEWARE of ADVERBS!!!

Adverbs answer the questions When? Where? How? and To What Extent?

In Contractions, N'T is short for the adverb NOT, and is NOT part of the verb phrase.

VERB

SUBJECT

Does it have any Helping Verbs?

LINKING

It doesn’t happen to anything; it just happens.

Action Verbs express what is happening, what is about to happen, or what did happen.

Linking Verbs express a state of being rather than action. Such verbs are called linking verbs, because they link a subject to a word in the predicate. They either are or may be replaced by form of the verb To Be.

Is it Transitive

TO BE

Am, Are, Is

Was, Were

Be, Been, Being

or Intransitive?

Other Common Linking Verbs

Feel, Taste, Look, Smell, Sound,

Appear, Seem, Grow,

Become, Equal, Remain

TRANSITIVE

PN

&PP

PA

Direct Object

Predicate

Noun/Pronoun

Predicate Adjective

ASK:

What got "Verbed"?

The Direct Object gets

"verbed"

Indirect Object

The Indirect Object gets the Direct Object.

DO

identifies subject as

a specific noun or pronoun

tells which one, what

kind of , how much, or

how many the subject is.

IO

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