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word that expresses action
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a state of being like be or seem |
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make statements about the subject
it tells what the subject is doing or whats happening to the subject |
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Action &'LInkin
Action verbs express physical or mental actions |
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love, hope, trust, think, understand
describe a state of being |
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| Linking Verbs (mental action) |
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be, being, been, is, am, was, are, were
seem, appear, look, become, feel, smell |
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| show shifts in time, tense, mood,sense , tone of the verb such as commands, possibilities, or a wish |
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| Helping Verbs & Linking Verbs with to be |
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when to be is followed by a main verb it is a helping verb
When TO BE is the main verb than it is a LInking Verb |
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| can, could, would, should, shall, will, did, do, does, might, must, may, shall, be, been, being, has, had, have, am, is, was, were |
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| consist of the main and helping verbs |
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There are 3 verb simple tenses
& 3 perfect tenses |
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| Use the present tenses to describe current & repeated procedures. Use the present perfect tense to indicate actions that happened in the past but are connected to the present |
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VERB TENSES
simple-present, past & future
the simple & past tenses need no helping verb the future tense requires the helping verb will |
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VERB TENSES
present perfect, past perfect, future perfect. Present perfect require helping verbs have, has or had. They take the past participle of the main verb |
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| use past tense with things happening completely in the past. Past perfect tense to indicate a connection between actions the happened in the past. |
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| For future acts use the future tense, use the future present tense to show connection between events hat will be completed in the future |
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The verb to be in its various forms is the most frequently used helping
verb. When a form of to be is followed by a main verb, it‘s a helping
verb. When to be is the main verb, it‘s a linking verb. |
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Linking verbs
link a subject with another
word.linking verbs simply express a state of being.
The most common linking verb is the verb to be, in its various
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| Verbs have four principal parts: |
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| Infinitive, present participle, past tense, past participle |
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| The infinitive is the to form of the verb |
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| The present participle ends in -ing |
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The past tense of regular verbs usually ends in -ed
(called, walked, loved, and hoped). There are many other endings
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The past participle of verbs commonly ends in
-d, -ed, -n, or -en (held, called, torn, and forgiven). This is the form
of the verb that‘s used with have, has, or had. The past participle
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are modifiers of other verbs, adj, clauses or whole sentences
Usually but not all the time end in -ly |
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| may tells when, where, why, how long, how much, to what extent, what direction or how. it can be vague or specific |
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| whenever a adverb modifies and adjective or other adverbs |
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| Adverbs can be positioned |
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| immediately following a verb, or before the verb, adj, or adv. its modifiying |
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Positive word +ly
comparative more +word+ly
superlative most + word +ly |
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