The Basics Flashcards
What show physical or mental action?
Action Verbs
Action Verbs show what?
Physical or Mental
Being Verbs
Do not show action
The eight being verbs are:
am, is, are, was, were, be, being, been
What links the subject to a world in the predicate that renames or describes the subject (PA or PN)
Linking Verbs
Predicates adjectives ONLY come after what kind of verbs?
Linking Verbs
Predicate nominatives ONLY come after what kind of verbs?
Linking Verbs
Direct and Indirect Objects ONLY come after what kind of verbs?
Action Verbs
All the being verbs can be used as what type of verb?
Linking Verbs
A noun that follows another noun/pronoun and renames it without using a liking verb is called a what?
appositive
A noun/pronoun that follows an action verb and receives the action from the verb is called a what?
Direct Object
What question do you ask to find the Direct Object?
Action Verb “What?” (sometimes “Who?). Ex. The boy caught the ball. The boy caught what? The ball. Ball is a DO
What question do you ask to find the Indirect Object?
First, find the Direct Object. Then ask “To Who?”. Example: The boy gave his father a gift. What did he give? A Gift. To who? His Father. Father is an IO.
If there is an Indirect Object, there will always be a what?
Direct Object
a noun or pronoun that follows a linking verb and renames the subject is called what?
Predicate Nominative
