1. Verbs Main/Helping Action/Linking

2. What is a Verb?  A word or group of words that expresses action or doing.

3. Action Verbs  Is a word that shows action.  Action verbs tell what someone or something is doing.

4.  You can identify the action verb in a sentence by asking, “What is the person or thing in the sentence doing?”  Example: Chad jumps rope.  Who is this sentence about?  What is the action they do?

5. Sarah sings a song.  Who is this sentence about?  What is the action they do?

6. The magnet pulls the door closed.  What is this sentence about?  What is the action it does?

7. The rabbit hops away.  What is this sentence about?  What is the action it does?

8. Action Verbs  Some action verbs tell about actions that are hard to see.

9.  Examples of these action verbs- wishes, dreams, listens, and enjoys.

10. Maureen enjoys this book about magnets.  What is the the action verb in this sentence?  Who is the sentence about?  What is the action they do?

11. The baseball player the ball.  This sentence is not complete.  It is not complete because it does not have a verb!  What word is missing?

12. The ball over the fence.  Fix the sentence by adding an action verb.

13. Rose the song.  Fix the sentence by adding an action verb.

14. What is an action verb?  ???

15. Choose the action verb in the sentence.  Put up a 1, 2, or 3.

16. A magnet pulls metal to it.  1. magnet?  2. pulls?  3. metal?

17. Some trains travel at high speeds.  1. travel?  2. speeds?  3. trains?

18. Magnets push the train forward.  1. forward?  2. magnets?  3. push?

19. Magnets close metal doors.  1. magnets?  2. close?  3. metal?