1. ACTION LINKING HELPING TENSES
VERBS
ACTION LINKING HELPING TENSES

2. STANDARD PERFORMANCE INDICATOR:
L.6.1- demonstrate command of the conventions of Standard English
grammar and usage.

3. Essential Question:
Why is it important to have a command of standard English conventions?
How can knowing and applying the conventions the conventions affect and strengthen students’ abilities when writing and communicating?

4. Lesson Objectives
I can identify and distinguish between the three different types of verbs commonly found in a sentence.
I can write sentences using the three different types of verbs with 80 % accuracy.
I can name 3 tenses and explain each one, as well as use them in a sentence.

5. Verbs. What is a verb?
A verb is a word which shows the action in a sentence (the doing word)
Examples
I play football.
They skip quickly.
We eat spaghetti.
Bob is seven today.

6. Action Verbs Verbs that express action
1. It tells you what the subject is doing.
2. Remember the action can be physical or mental.

7. Find the action verb Marie walked to school.
Louis thought about the math problem.

8. Words that show action
flourish jump consider wish reflect soar advise explore think

9. Linking Verb
Does not show action!!!! How do linking verbs work? 1. Links the subject to a description of itself Example: Debbie is a student (Debbie is linked to the description of being a student.) 2. Links the subject to the predicate Example: Bob was the creator of the show.

10. Linking Verbs Common Linking Verbs: am , are, is, was, were, (and) be
Forms of be verb
taste, smell, sound, seem, look, feel, say. become, grow, appear, remain

11. Helping Verbs Helps the main verb show tense or possibility
Helps the main verb express itself
EXAMPLE:
The girl is sewing a new dress.

12. COMMON HELPING VERBS
REMEMBER: MUST USE ACTION VERB WITH THESE

13. APPROVED LIST OF HELPING VERBS

14. Verb Tenses Verb tenses describe WHEN the action is happening.
PRESENT (it’s happening NOW.)
PAST (it’s ALREADY happened.)
FUTURE (it’s ABOUT to happen.)

15. Present tense to past tense.
The following sentences are written in the present tense. Try changing them to the past tense by putting Yesterday at the beginning of each.
I eat spaghetti.
They skip quickly.
Bob is seven.
I play football.
How have the verbs changed?

16. How did you do? Yesterday I ate spaghetti.
Yesterday they skipped quickly.
Yesterday Bob was seven.
Yesterday I played football.
(Did you remember to double the consonant in skipped?)

17. Past to present Sarah felt hot. The cow jumped over the moon.
These sentences are in the past.
Change them to the present by putting today at the front of each.
Sarah felt hot.
The cow jumped over the moon.
John sat outside in the garden.
The mouse ran up the clock.

18. How did you do? Today Sarah feels hot.
Today the cow jumps over the moon.
Today John sits outside in the garden.
Today the mouse runs up the clock.

19. The future tense. Jack and Jill went up the hill.
The future tense is used to describe what will or could happen. Change these sentences to the future tense by adding tomorrow at the start of each.
Jack and Jill went up the hill.
Thomas chased the mouse.
Lucy entered the wardrobe.
Bo Peep lost her sheep.

20. How did you do? Tomorrow Jack and Jill could/will go up the hill.
Tomorrow Thomas could/will chase the mouse.
Tomorrow Lucy could/will enter the wardrobe.
Tomorrow Bo Peep could/will lose her sheep.

21. REVIEW
Explain the difference between an action verb and a linking verb?
Provide an example of sentence containing a linking verb.
A verb phrase = __________ + _______
Provide an example of a sentence with a verb phrase.
Name and explain the three tenses.