Week 2

Question 1

What is a verb?

Answer 1

A verb is a word that asserts action, a state of being, or existence.

Question 2

What is a helping verb? (C1, W13)

Answer 2

A helping verb helps another verb assert an action, state of being, or existence.

Question 3

What are the EIGHT parts of speech? (C2, W1)

Answer 3

The eight parts of speech are noun, pronoun, verb, adverb, conjunction, interjection, prepositions, and adjectives.

Question 4

What are the 4 types of verbs?

Answer 4

The four types of verbs are intransitive, transitive, helping, and linking.

Question 5

What are the four verb attributes?

Answer 5

The four verb attributes are person, number, voice, and mood.

Question 6

What is a transitive verb?

Answer 6

a transitive verb transfers action from th subject to an object.

Question 7

What is an intransitive verb?

Answer 7

An intransitive verb does NOT transfer action from the subject to an object.

Question 8

What is a linking verb? (C1, W21)

Answer 8

A LINKING verb makes an assertion by joining two words. (Can replace an equals = sign)