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VerbsLA6
tenses, actions, direct/indirect objects
Question | Answer |
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Action Verb | names an action- may contain more than one word. |
Direct Object | receives the action of a verb. answers whom? or what? |
transitive verb | verb has direct object |
intransitive verb | verb does not have a direct object. |
indirect object | answers the question to whom? or for whom? the action was done. |
linking verb | connects the subject of a sentence with a noun or adjective in the predicate |
predicate noun | a noun that follows a linking verb and tells what he subject is |
Predicate adjective | an adjective that follows al inking verb and tells what the subject is like. |
present tense | names an action that happens regularly; can also express a general truth. |
past tense | names an action that has already happened. |
future tense | names an action that will take place in the future |
helping verb | helps the main verb tell about an action or make a statement. |
verb phrase | consists of one or more helping verbs followed by a main verb |
present progressive form | tells about an action that is continuing right now |
Past progressive form | verb names an action that continued for some time in the past. |
present perfect tense | tells about something that happened at an indefinite time in the past; also tells about an action that happened in the past and is still happening now. |
past perfect tense | names an action that happened before another action or even in the past |