VERBS
Action Verbs
The main word in the predicate is the verb.
A verb is a word that can show action.
When a verb tells what people or things do, it is called an action verb.
Helping and Main Verbs
A verb may be more than one word.
The main verb is the most important word.
The helping verb comes before it.
Some Common Helping Verbs
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am
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is
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are
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was
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were
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will
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has
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have
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had
Subject/ Verb Agreement
A verb in the present tense must agree with the subject of the sentence.
Singular Subjects: When the subject is a singular noun or he, she, or it, add s to the verb.
Plural Subjects: When the subject is a plural noun, or I, we, you, or they, do not add an s to the verb.
Subject/ Verb Agreement Samples
Singular Subjects
Plural Subjects
The boy runs.
The girls run.
The horse gallops.
The horses gallop.
Sally sings.
Sally and Mary sing.
he, she, it
I, you, we, they
He plays baseball.
I play baseball.
She reads books.
You read books.
It barks loudly.
They bark loudly.
Present, Past, Future
A verb tells when something happens. The tense of a verb lets you know whether something happens in the past, present, or in the future.
Present
walk
laugh
touch
Past
walked
laughed
touched
Future
will walk
will laugh
will touch
Spelling Present Tense
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For most verbs, add s.
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For verbs that end with s, x, z, ch, or sh, add es.
For a verb that ends with a consonant and y, change the y to an i and add es.
Spelling Present Tense Samples
For verbs that end with s, x, z, ch, or sh, add es.
For a verb that ends with a consonant and y, change the y to an i and add es.
push --- pushes dry --- dries
brush --- brushes fly --- flies
miss --- misses study --- studies
Spelling the Past Tense
For most verbs, add -ed.
Verbs ending with e, drop the e and add -ed.
Verbs ending with a single vowel and a consonant, double the consonant and add -ed.
Verbs ending with a consonant and y, change the y to an i and add -ed.
Spelling the Past Tense Samples
For most verbs just add -ed.
For verbs ending in e, drop the e and add -ed.
talk - talked like - liked
play - played bake - baked
call - called save - saved
Verbs ending with a single vowel and a consonant, double
the consonant and add -ed.
Verbs ending with a consonant and y, change the y to an i
and add -ed.
hug - hugged study - studied
hum - hummed fry - fried
hop – hopped hurry – hurried
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