Verbs Vocab

Question 1

A part of speech that tells what the subject is or will be doing

Answer 1

Verbs

Question 2

A type of verb that expresses physical or mental activity

Answer 2

Action

Question 3

Links or connects the subject to a word or word group that identifies the predicate nominative

Answer 3

linking

Question 4

Helps the main verb express action or a state of being. A verb phrase contains one main verb and one or more of these

Answer 4

Helping

Question 5

an action verb that directs an action toward a person, place, thing, or an idea

Answer 5

Transitive

Question 6

an action verb that doesn’t direct the action toward an object. It only tells what the subject is doing.

Answer 6

Intransitive

Question 7

complete the meaning of the simple subject and the verb.

Answer 7

Complements

Question 8

noun/pronoun in the complete predicate that follows a transitive action verb and tells who/what receives the action of the verb

Answer 8

direct object

Question 9

located between the transitive action verb and the direct object; tells to
who/what or for whom/what the action done (recipient of the direct object)

Answer 9

Indirect object

Question 10

noun/pronoun in the complete predicate that follows a linking verb and renames the subject

Answer 10

Predicate nominative

Question 11

adjective in the complete predicate that follows a linking verb and describes the subject

Answer 11

Predicate Adjective