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Day 7 – Verbs and Intro to Fiction INSTRUCTOR: KYLE BRITT

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Day 7 – Verbs and Intro to FictionINSTRUCTOR: KYLE BRITT

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Objectives• Understand and identify the importance of verbs and their

usage.

• Analyze a work of fiction for the effects of narrative techniques.

Homework: VCR Exercise A

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Warm Up• Write 5 short sentences describing your favorite sport.

Identify the prepositional phrases.

Ex: Soccer is the best sport that uses a ball flying through the air.

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Verbs• A verb is a word that expresses action or a state of being and is

necessary to make a statement.

• Ex: I am free. (Am is the verb as it is a state of being.)

• “Real” Verbs are separated into:1. Action

2. Linking

• There is also a verb-like type called helping verbs.

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Action Verbs• Action verbs tell what a person or thing does. They can express

mental or physical action.

• Ex: The dog barked all day. (physical action)

• Ex: He thought about the dog all day. (mental action)

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Linking Verbs• A linking verb joins the subject of a sentence with a word or

expression that identifies or describes the subject.

• Expresses a state of being.

• All forms of the verb to be are linking verbs.

• Ex: The teacher is cranky. (Is links cranky to teacher.)

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Handy Tip for Linking Verbs• Linking verbs are like the equal signs of language. (=)

• Any verb that can be replaced with is, am, are, be, become, or becomes to create a sentence with nearly the same meaning is a linking verb.

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Action or Linking Verb?We celebrated the Chinese New

Year.The holiday is usually in February.

action

linking

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Action or Linking Verb?• John looked tired.

• John looked through the binoculars.action

linking

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Action or Linking Verb?• Remain in your seats until the

end of class.

• Remain calm.

action

linking

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Action or Linking Verb? Your Turn!• Any verb that can be replaced with is, am, are, be, become, or

becomes to create a sentence with nearly the same meaning is a linking verb.

• The sky looks blue.

• I walked home.

• Our teacher seemed crazy.