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Verbs, adverbs

Verbs, adverbs . Action Verb. Tells what someone or something is doing or thinking . Example: Rain pounded against the roof . Example : Morgan suspected that basketball practice would be cancelled . Action Verb Brainstorm. Board brainstorm. Choose 3.

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Verbs, adverbs

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  1. Verbs, adverbs

  2. Action Verb • Tells what someone or something is doing or thinking. • Example: Rain pounded against the roof. • Example: Morgan suspected that basketball practice would be cancelled.

  3. Action Verb Brainstorm • Board brainstorm. • Choose 3. • Three most creative sentences in three minutes. • Share.

  4. Linking Verb • Connects a word at the beginning (usually the subject) with another word at the end. • Usually, a form of the ‘to be’ verb: is, are, am, was, were, am being, can be, have been, etc. • Example: I am a teacher, and you are students.

  5. Linking Verb Activities • Two sentences describing yourselves. Use linking verbs.

  6. Helping Verbs • Added to main verb to make a single verb phrase. • Often a ‘to be’ verb. • Example: Young people should drive carefully. • Example: We are eating chicken biscuits for breakfast.

  7. Helping Verb Activity • Write two sentences using at least one helping verb and the main verb shown below. • Sizzle. • Snort.

  8. Action vs. Linking vs. Helping • Complete the verb practice WS. • In plenary?

  9. Adverbs • Modify verbs, adjectives, or other adverbs. • Often, but not always, ends in –ly. • Example: …talk quietly… • Example…dark green car… • Example…walks very quickly… • Example: Marina is tired because she slept fitfully. • Example: Lauren prefers to use the hot pink highlighter. • Example: Brendan swings the bat very forcefully.

  10. Adverbs • When describing a verb: • Where? When? How? To what extent? • The 8th graders marched noisily across the quad toward the cafeteria. • When modifying an adjective or another adverb: • To what extent? • Nashville has been extremely humid this summer.

  11. Adverb Practice • Create sentences using using… • …‘very’ as an adverb • …‘sleepily’ as an adverb • …choose your own adverb

  12. Journal: Verbs, Adverbs • TOPIC: Think of an activity that you are good at – e.g. playing video games, playing a sport, riding horses, building furniture, painting or drawing, etc. – and then explain to someone, in detail, how to do it. • Use and underline at least… • 5 action verbs in red • 2 linking verbs in blue • 2 helping verbs in green • 3 adverbs in orange

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