Helping/Linking Verbs

What type of verb is catch? How about become? Find out if your learners can distinguish between action verbs, helping verbs, and linking verbs with a grammar exercise. Students label each of the underlined verbs in the 14 sentences...

Practice changing the ends of verbs when writing in the past tense. A series of activities helps kids learn to use the past tense and features a variety of exercises, including a grammar table and fill-in-the-blanks. Two activities focus...

What is a linking verb? Is it the same as a verb of being? Review some basics with your middle schoolers before sending them off to work on the two exercises independently. In the first, they identify the linking verb and the words it...

What are you doing at the moment? Practice the present continuous (progressive) tense with a helpful worksheet. It features word banks and sentences for learners to rewrite.

Make sure your pupils exercise their grammar muscles with this collection of worksheets. Organized into units, the packet covers everything from the parts of speech to sentence structure to punctuation.

Tighten up your class's grammar with this straightforward worksheet on sentence patterns. After a short review about sentence patterns, clauses, and subjects and verbs, ten questions prompt young writers to identify the parts of the...

Help your students to complete their sentences with this bright and fun presentation, which guides students through the concept of linking verbs, forms of "be," and subject complements. A great introduction into different sentence forms...

Examples of when to use adjectives and when to use adverbs are given in these slides. Adjectives come after sense and linking verbs and adverbs follow action verbs. A lot of information is included with many examples and a little bit of...

See the variety of verbs spelled out in these slides. From infinitives to intransitives, each verb is defined and shown with examples. Relationships of verbs to other parts of a sentence are clearly explained. This complex subject is...

Need a grammar assessment? Whether used as homework, a pre-test, or a formal assessment, this worksheet will give you a good reading of learners’ understanding of the parts of speech. Definitions and examples of each term are given and...