UNDERSTANDING PARTS OF SPEECH:
VERBS AND ADVERBS

Materials

• Verbs and Adverbs Lesson - Use the printable lesson for your lesson plan, or use as a lesson supplement.

Procedure:

Students should read the lesson, and complete the worksheet. As an option, teachers may also use the lesson as part of a classroom lesson plan.

Excerpt from Lesson:

What is a Verb?

• A verb is the part of a sentence that tells what action is taking place. There are 3 types of verbs: action verbs, helping verbs, and linking verbs.

• Action Verbs show activity, such as run, jump, fly, memorize, listen, laugh. These words are names things that you can do.

• Helping Verbs are words that “help” the action word do its job within a sentence.

• Linking Verbs are words that link the subject of a sentence to the rest of the ideas within the sentence.

• Linking Verbs and Helping Verbs do NOT show action, and they are the following words.

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