VERBS

Created with love by: Teacher Zoe Marie Benitez

There are different kinds of Verbs:

Action

Main and Helping

Present tense

Past tense

Future tense

Irregular

Action Verbs

A Verb is a word that can show action.

When a Verb tells what people or things do, it is called an Action Verb.

Examples: Janet called her friend last night.

Lucas helps his mother with the dishes.

Camille and Daniel walk to school every day.

Exercise

Main Verbs and Helping Verbs

A Verb may be more than one word.

All the verbs in the sentence make up the Verb Phrase.

The Main Verb is the most important Verb.

The Helping Verb works together with the main verb. Clue: It comes before the main verb (action verb = main verb).

To identify the Helping Verb, you must first find the action verb.

Harry Helping Verb:

Hi, I’m Harry Helping Verb, and I’m so helpful that

I will help you learn the 23 Helping Verbs by telling

you a story. The title of the story is Old Mr. Do.

Like some stories, this story has a moral.

The moral is: “Maybe Mr. Do should have a will.”

Read on and you will see why!!!

Once upon a time there was a wealthy merchant named Mr. Do.

Mr. Do was very old and very rich. His many relatives were dreaming of the day the old man would die. They wondered which one of them would inherit his money. Finally, one day Mr. Do did die. All the relatives searched his house for a will. They didn’t find one. They searched his house three times. They still did not find a will. The relatives did not get one dime of Mr. Do’s fortune.

** The moral: May be Mr. Do should have a will.

May be Mr. Do should have a will.

Just remember the above sentence and you will know how to set up a chart of the 23 helping verbs! The largest “family” is the “BE” family with 8 members. The other 5 families have 3

members each.

maymightmust

bebeingbeenamisarewaswere

dodoesdid

shouldcouldwould

havehashad

willcanshall

Exercise:

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What will happen to the food?

Uncle Ray has fixed the car.

She will need a new oven.

The lady had asked for pancakes.

Mom will handle everything.

Everyone has signed the card.

We are taking classes today.

Now she is going to school.

Jack and Taylor are painting the house.

Verb Tenses

Verbs tell about time.

There are verbs that tell about things that happen now. Those are called Present Tense Verbs.

There are verbs that tell about things that already happened. Those are called Past Tense Verbs.

There are verbs that tell about things that we hope will happen. Those are called Future Tense Verbs.

Present Tense Verbs These kinds of verbs tell about things that happen now.

You need to add –s or –es to most present tense verbs to make them agree with a singular subject.

Present tense with singular Subjects Rules:

Examples Try it

1. For most verbs:

Add –s

want / wants Janette _________ a new book.

2. For verbs that end with: s,x,z,ch,or sh:

Add -es

fix / fixes

teach / teaches

miss / misses

The coach _________ the net.

Brenda _________ the ball.

3. For a verb that ends with a consonant and –y:

Change the –y to –iAdd -es

study/ studies

fly / flies

She ___________ for her test.

Exercise

Complete this exercise in your notebook.

Spelling the Past

Exercise

The Past with Helping Verbs Remember that regular present tense verbs are changed to the Past tense by

adding –ed at the end. talk / talked

Sometimes you are going to need a helping verb to show the Past tense

Use the helping verbs has, had, or have with the past form to show that

something has already happened.

With Singular Subjects, use has or had. She has traveled to California.

With Plural Subjects, use have or had. We have stepped out of the room.

Exercise Identify the Verb Phrase

1. Our class had visited a museum last week.

2. Robert Johnson had created the museum.

3. He has collected rare objects.

4. Famous museums had traded objects with him.

5. Mr. Johnson has copied old machines.

6. Judges have awarded him different prizes.

Present Past Past with has, have, had

Try it:

The Special Verb Be

The Verb Be has special forms for different subjects.

The Verb “be” The verb “be” has special forms for different subjects.

It does not show action. It tells what someone or something is or is like.

Subject Present Past

I am was

you are were

he, she, it is was

Singular noun

is was

we are were

they are were

Plural noun are were

This table shows you how to use the verb “be” in the present and the past tenses.

Exercise:

Exercise:

Contractions with “Not”

WORDS CONTRACTION

is not isn't

are not aren't

was not wasn't

were not weren't

have not haven't

has not hasn't

had not hadn't

will not won't

would not wouldn't

do not don't

does not doesn't

did not didn't

cannot can't

could not couldn't

should not shouldn't

Sometimes you can join a verb with the word “not”.

When this is done, it is called a “contraction”.

An apostrophe ‘ takes the place of the letter o.

Try it!

Complete this exercise in your notebook.

1. You ____________ stay up too late. (should not)

2. We ____________ go to the movies. (cannot)

3. Harry ______________ watch television last night. (could not)

4. He _____________ done his homework. (had not)

5. He ____________ ready for the quiz. (was not)

6. Harry ____________ do it again! (will not)

7. ___________ learning fun? (is not)

8. I ____________ miss school for anything. (would not)

9. Miriam ___________ like to study. (does not)

10. I ____________ hear the teacher. (did not)

**Remember to

substitute the o with

an apostrophe ‘

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