State of Being Verbs

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State of Being Verbs

• A Project LA Activity

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What is a state of being verb?

• State of being verbs are often called linking
  verbs because they link the subject of the
  sentence with information about it.

PREDICATE
SUBJECT
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What is a state of being verb?

• There are 8 state of being verbs
• is, am are
• was, were,
• be being been.

Hear the 8 state of being verbs!
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The teacher is tall.

• In the first sentence, is links the teacher to
  information about her-the fact that she is tall.
  That is her state of being.

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This candy tastes so sweet.

• In the second sentence, tastes links candy to
  information about itits sweetness. Did you think
  taste was an action verb? Well, it iswhen the
  subject is doing the tasting. But here, the candy
  isn't doing any tasting. The candy itself tastes
  sweet. That is its state of being.

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Can you tell which are being verbs?
were run will be jump
shine skip sing is
could has drive draw
Ready to move on?
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OOPS! That is an action verb.

• Try again

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Yes! That is a state of being verb.

• Try
• another!

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Online Verb Games

• The Linking Verb
• State of Being Verb Quiz
• 2Bee or Nottoobee Verb Game
• Doing and Being Verb Sentence Sense
• Doing and Being Verb Sentence Sense II
• Linking Verbs