What is a verb

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What is a verb?
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Verbs

• Remember, there are two kinds of verbs
• Linking Verbs
• Action Verbs

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• Action verbs show a specific action although
  the action can be physical or mental.
• For ex.
• Harry ate the hamburger.

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• Susan and Matt dreamed of their upcoming
  vacation.

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• Action verbs, just like linking verbs, have
  complements.
• The complements of action verbs are called
  objects.
• Direct objects
• Indirect objects

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Action Verbs Subject Complements

• A Direct Object is a word or a group of words
  that names the receiver of the action of an
  action verb.
• It answers the question What? or Whom?
• For example Sammy dunked the ball.
• What did Sammy dunk? The ball.

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• The dog ate the newspaper.
• What did the dog eat?
• The newspaper.

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• An Indirect Object is a word or group of words
  that tells to what, to whom, or for whom an
  action is done.
• The indirect object usually comes between the
  verb and the direct object.
• For example Mother bought Sally a sweater.
• What did mother buy? A sweater
• For whom did she buy it? Sally
• Mother DID NOT buy Sally.

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Linking Verbs

• A linking verb links the subject of the
  sentence to a word in the predicate.
• The most common linking verbs are forms of the
  verb be.
• Ex. is, am, are, was, were, be, being, been
• John is president of the Green Club.

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Linking Verbs continued

• However, linking verbs are also verbs that
  express condition.
• Ex. Look, smell, feel, sound, taste, grow,
  appear, become, seem
• The perfume smells sweet.

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• The weather seems cooler today than yesterday.
• The man looks sad.

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Complements of Linking Verbs

• Just like action verbs have complements,
  linking verbs have complements.
• There are two kinds of subject complements for
  a linking verb
• Predicate nouns (PN)
• Predicate adjectives (PA)

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Predicate Nouns

• A predicate noun is a noun or pronoun that
  follows a linking verb and identifies the
  subject.
• Example A hurricane is a violent tropical
  whirlwind.
• Linking verb is
• subject complement whirlwind (PN)

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Predicate Adjectives

• A predicate adjective is an adjective that
  follows a linking verb and describes the subject.
• Ex. Their winds are strong.
• The predicate adjective strong describes the
  subject, winds.

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• Hurricanes are dangerous.
• Hurricanes subject
• Linking verb are
• Predicate adjective dangerous
• Dangerous describes the hurricane.

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• Feeder bands are the outer part of the
  hurricane.
• Feeder bands subject
• Are linking verb
• Part predicate noun (PN)
• part renames the feeder band