Wednesday Subject: English

Dec.2nd ,2020 Grammar

Verbs
Action Verbs
C.W. Pgs. 121,122
H.W. Online Assignment
A complete sentence has a subject and a predicate.
The subject tells what or whom the sentence is about:

The girl ran around the track.

Mike and Joe jumped over the fence.

• The predicate tells what the subject does and has a verb. Identifying subjects and
verbs can help students when writing:

Mike and Joe jumped over the fence.

The girl ran around the track.
• A verb is a word that tells what the subject does or is:

•The girl ran around the track.

• Mike and Joe jumped over the fence.
 Examples
An action verb shows action in the
predicate part of a sentence. It
tells what the subject does: The deer darted across the road.
An earthquake shook the ground
beneath us. The gardener planted a peach tree.
The deer darted across the road.
The gardener planted a peach
tree.

• Some action verbs tell about

feelings and actions that cannot be I like baseball.
seen:
I like baseball. He thinks about basketball.
He thinks about basketball.
She smells the flowers.
She smells the flowers.
Online Assignment
Underline each action verb in the sentences below.
• 1. He practices hard every day.
• 2. The team runs across the field.
• 3. The coach carries a bag of soccer balls.
• 4. He drops one and kicks it hard.
• 5. Look at how quickly the team chases it!