Verb Notes

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Verb Notes
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Action Verb

• An action verb is a word that describes
• what someone or something does. An
• action verb names an action.
• Example attract, reach, jump, hop, think, roam,
  falls

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Direct Object

• A direct object receives the action
• from the verb. It answers the question
• what? or whom? after an action verb.
• Not every sentence has a direct
• object.

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Indirect Object

• An indirect object comes after the
• action verb and before the direct
• object. An indirect object answers the
• question to whom? or for whom?

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Linking Verb

• A linking verb connects a sentences
• subject with a noun or an adjective in
• the predicate.
• Common linking verbs appear, become,
• feel, grow, look, seem, taste, am, is, are,
• was, and were.

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• Transitive Verb
• An action verb that is followed by a direct
  object.
• The polar bears /eat fish.
• Intransitive Verb
• An action verb that is not followed by a direct
  object.
• The polar bears /eat slowly.

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Helping Verb

• A helping verb is a verb that helps the
• main verb express an action or make a
• statement.
• Example am, is, are, was, were, have, has, had,
  and will.