VerbsEG: Unit 2, Lessons 7-11

SSWBAT:

1. Provide a clear, meaning-based

description of action verbs that can be

useful to students even if it is

incomplete.

Action verb description

Action verbs name actions/ behaviors:

run, think, call, write, listen, sit, stand,

sweat, sing, play

– They tell what someone or something is

doing.

SSWBAT:

2. Provide a clear, meaning-based

description of linking verbs that can be

useful to students even if it is

incomplete.

Linking verb description

Linking verbs indicate a state of

existence (being) or a sensory

perception: be, feel, smell, sound,

They link their subject with a (1)

renaming of or (2) description of itself.

Linking verbs + renaming subject

The LV be can be followed by a noun

phrase (predicate nominative) that

renames or tells about the LV’s

subject.

– Jake is an accountant.

– Julie became a physician.

Linking verbs + renaming subject

If a linking verb is followed by a noun,

the noun must rename the verb’s

subject.

– You are the best student in this class!

Try resemble. (Book has it as a linking

verb, p. 27, but a linguist would disagree.)

Linking verbs + describing subject

Sense-based LVs & seem, turn (turn gray,

turn cold), be, became, etc. can precede

an adjective (predicate adjective) that

describes the LV’s subject.

– This shirt smells clean.

– Julie is energetic.

Examples:

This woman is (= or describes) ____.

– Julie’s cousin. (predicate nominative)

– a senior. (predicate nominative)

– capable. (predicate adjective)

– 20 years old. (predicate adjective)

SSWBAT:

3. Explain & illustrate what types of verbs

belong to the linking verb set

• Link to renaming: be, become, remain,

stay (Jake ___ an accountant.)

• Link to description: sensory words, got,

become, seem, grew, appear, be (Jake

___ happy.)

Review

1. Provide a clear, meaning-based

description of action verbs.

2. Provide a clear, meaning-based

description of linking verbs.

3. Explain & illustrate what type of verbs

are linking verbs.

SSWBAT:

4. Provide 2 phrase frames that can be

used to test if a word is a verb.

– should _____

– want to ______

Try the phrase frames

Run, walk, think, talk, read, play. touch

Be, feel, seem, remain, resemble, look

Beautiful, awkwardly, toward, the, only

SSWBAT:

5. Name at least 3 characteristic

behaviors of verbs.

Characteristic verb behaviors

Can have a past tense

– For regular verbs, use -ed ending

– Studied, placed, saw, said, ran

Can take an -ing ending (present

participle morpheme)

Characteristic verb behaviors

Can be made into a command:

– Stay! Look! Run! Stop! *Seem (happy)!

Can be made negative:

– Don’t stay! Don’t look! Don’t run! Don’t

stop! You don’t seem happy.

SSWBAT:

6. Define and identify the base/infinitive

form of a verb.

The verb that is not marked for tense

or aspect. (No ending: -ed, -en, -ing)

Infinitive (base) V forms

Want to ______ (happy/sad)

Should _________ (a toad)

Both frames take the infinitive form.

– *Should kissed a toad.

– *You seeming pleased.

Review

4. Provide 2 phrase frames for testing if a

word is a verb.

5. Name 3 characteristic behaviors of

verbs.

6. Define & identify infinitive forms of verbs.

SSWBAT:

7. Identify the “most irregular verb” in

English & chart its present & past

tense forms

Be

Present tense forms of be

I we

youyou

(both/all)

he/she/it they

am

are

is

are

are

are

Past tense forms of be

I we

you you (both/all)

he/she/it they

was

were

was

were

were

were

SSWBAT:

8. Prove with example sentences that

some verbs can be used either as

action or linking verbs.

Try feel, taste, ____

Both action & linking verb

Julie felt the kitten rub against her leg.

Julie felt comfortable.

Jake tasted the chicken.

The chicken tasted delicious.

Review

7. Identify the “most irregular” English

verb & chart its present & past forms.

8. Prove with example sentences that

some verbs can be both action and

linking verbs.

SSWBAT:

9. Name and illustrate the type of

modifier that can follow a linking

verb and the type of modifier that

can follow an action verb.

SSWBAT:

10. Contrast what the modifiers

addressed in the previous items

modify/describe.

Modifiers/descriptors after LVs

Finish this sentence: You look

_____.

– tired, smart, happy, mature,

trustworthy

– Adjectives--describe LV’s subject.

Modifiers/descriptors after AVs

Finish this sentence: You speak

_____.

– Fast, passionately, eloquently, well

– Adverbs--describe the AV (about the

speaking, not you).

FYI: good (adj.) and well (adv.)

Does someone run good or well?

Does someone look good or well?

Does something taste good or

well?

Does someone taste good or well?

Review

9. Name & illustrate what kind of

modifier can follow a linking verb.– What kind of modifier can follow an

action verb?

10. Contrast what the modifiers in

item 9 modify.

SSWBAT:

11. Describe and exemplify what

transitive and intransitive verbs

are.

Transitive verbs take an object.

Intransitive verbs don’t.

Transitive and intransitive Vs

What’s an object? A noun phrase

(NP) that the transitive verb is

acting upon.

Direct objects answer the

question “Whom?” or “What?”

Example (direct) objects

The boy kissed the girl.

– Whom?

The boy threw a stick.

– What?

Note:

Objects only follow action verbs.

Therefore, only action verbs are

described as transitive or

intransitive.

Transitive and intransitive

Jake is studying in the library.

– Intransitive--“in the library” doesn’t

answer “Whom?” or “What?”

Jake is studying Spanish.

– Transitive--Spanish answers “What?”

SSWBAT:

12. Provide a sentence frame that can

be used to determine a verb is

transitive.

They ____ something/someone.

SSWBAT:

13. Provide a sentence frame that

can be used to determine a verb

is intransitive.

They ____. (No object)

Testing the frames.

Transitive:

– Julie answered the question.

Intransitive:

– Julie answered correctly.

Testing the frames.

Transitive:

– Julie asked Jake.

Intransitive:

– Julie asked first.

SSWBAT:

14. Prove some verbs can be both

transitive and intransitive.

Which can be both?

– Sleep, tell, worry, encourage

– Answer: Worry, tell (Ex: Don’t tell on us.)

Review

11. Describe & exemplify what a transitive

verb is.

• Describe & exemplify what an intransitive

verb is.

Review

12. Provide the sentence frame for

determining if a verb is transitive.

13.Provide the sentence frame for

determining if a verb is intransitive.

14.Prove some verbs can be both.

SSWBAT:

15. Provide a definition of a phrasal verb.

2 parts: verb + particle

– Pick up, take off, hand in, hand over

Similar meaning to a single verb

– Clean, remove or leave, submit

SSWBAT:

16. State what part of speech phrasal

verb particles can also be.

Prepositions: out the door, on the

floor, up the wall, off the table, over

the river

SSWBAT:

17.Provide a test frame that indicates 2

(or 3) words are acting as a phrasal

verb.

Fit the verb phrase frames:

– Want to _____ (pick up, take off, hand in)

– Should ____ (pick up, take off, hand in)

SSWBAT:

18.Provide a test that can prove two

words are acting together as a phrasal

verb. (Note: Verb must be transitive.)

– Pick the living room up.

– Take your coat off.

– Hand your homework in.

Can’t put a preposition after its NP

Run up the bill. --> Run the bill up.

Run up the stairs. --> *Run the stairs up.

Look up the word. --> Look the word up.

Look up the stairs. ---> *Look the stairs up.

SSWBAT:

19. Identify a situation that usually

requires the parts of the phrasal verb

to be separated.

19.*Hand in it. Hand it in. -- Object is a

pronoun.

20.*Call up her. Call her up.

SSWBAT:

20.Provide several examples that show

that sometimes a particle cannot be

separated from the first word in a

phrasal verb even when the phrasal

verb is transitive (and the object is a

pronoun).

Immovable particles

Try look into, call on, step on, send for

– I’ll look into that situation.

– *I’ll look that situation into.

– *I’ll look it into.

– Please don’t call on me.

– *Please don’t call me on.

Verb + 2 particles

FYI: There are some 3-word phrasal

verbs.

– Do away with = abolish, put up with =

tolerate, stand up for = defend

– These don’t allow particle movement.

Review

15.Define phrasal verb.

16.Name the part of speech phrasal verb

particles can be.

17.Provide a test frame that indicates 2

(or 3) words are acting together as a

phrasal verb.

Review

18.Provide a test that proves 2 words are

acting as a phrasal verb.

19. Identify when particle movement may

be required.

20.Provide example phrasal verbs that

don’t allow their parts to be separated.