1. Let’s Review How much do you remember about verbs?

2. How many types of verbs do you know? 1 2 3 4 The Answer is…… 2

3. What are the two types of verbs called? ____ ____ ____ ____ ___ ___ ___ ___ __ ___ and ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___

4. GOOD JOB!!! They are called….. Body Action Verbs and Mind Action Verbs

5. Let’s Review Whip around

6. You are now ready for the next type of verb… LINKING VERBS

7. There are 9 linking verbs to learn That’s too many to memorize, so……. we will use an easy trick to remember them all.

8. Let’s see if you can fill in the missing verb in each sentence. Yesterday, I ______ happy. was Today, I ________ happy. am Tomorrow, I will _______ happy. be So far you know 3 linking verbs.

9. That’s all I can think of now, so I will change the pronoun “I” to “he” and see what happens! Yesterday, he _____ happy. was Today, he ________ happy. is Tomorrow, he will ____ happy. be We only learned 1 more. We still have 5 to go.

10. That’s all I can think of now, so I will change the pronoun “he” to “we” and see what happens! Yesterday, we _____ happy. were Today, we ________ happy. are Tomorrow, we will _____ happy. become How many linking verbs do we know so far?

11. The last 2 are more difficult. For a very long time I have _______ happy. been If you walk around with a smile on your face, you will always ________ happy. seem look

12. Look Linking verb I look at the dog. She looks wonderful. Body action

13. Why do we call these 9 verbs “linking verbs?

14. The bracket links the subject and the adjective with one of the 9 linking verbs. The principal was proud. S Adj V Let’s use MARK M A = Ask where is the verb? R = Root out the subject (who or what) K = Key in on. ? !

15. The 9 linking verbs are… amwasbe arewerebeen is seembecome Let’s use the Jingle Bells song to sing the linking verbs.

16. Let’s see if you can identify which two words in the sentence will be linked together with a linking verb. Yesterday, Tom _______ happy. was Today, Jane ________ happy. is Tomorrow, Pete will _____ happy. be

17. Link the subject and the adjective The dog was huge. They were funny. The test seems easy.

18. The 9 linking verbs are… amwasbe arewerebeen is seembecome Let’s use the Jingle Bells song to sing the linking verbs.