Essential Question: Why are verbs considered

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Day Three DiagramLand

• Essential Question Why are verbs considered
• the heart of a sentence?

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Action and Linking Verbs

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• Action Verb expresses physical or mental action
• You can do the action of the verb
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• Linking Verb links a word in the predicate to
  the subject
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Linking Verbs
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Steps to DiagramLand

• Find the prepositions (CIRCLE)
• Ask who or what of the preposition object
  (UNDERLINE)
• Delete prepositional phrases
• Find our VERB (Action or Linking) (BOX LABEL)
• Ask who or what of verb subject (BOX LABEL)

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Example sentences

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• Bob smelled the pie on the oven.
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• The pie smelled good to me.
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• Bob is a teacher at Heritage High School.
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• Bob teaches his class of twenty students.

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Remember Victor Verb and Susie Subject

• Victor Verb just moved into his new house, but
  Susie subject has followed him. What will he do?
• Example sentence Jessica slept for nine hours.