Grammar Quiz

Verbs can be broken into two MAIN categories. What are they?

• Action and State of Being

• Action and Hyperverbs

• Internal and External verbs

• Implicit and Explicit

ACTION verbs can be broken into two categories

• Transitive and Intransitive

• Action and Being

• Being and Linking

STATE of BEING verbs can be broken into two categories. What are they?

• Transitive and Intransitive

• Action and Linking

• Linking and Be verbs

Which verbs are the most irregular and include: am, are,

is, was, were, been,

being

• Linking

• Being

• Transitive

• Intransitive

What type of verbs often show senses (smell, taste, touch, hear, see) and link the subject and predicate of a sentence?

• Being

• Transitive

• Intransitive

• Linking

What tense are these verbs in?

• Present

• Past

• Future

What tense are these verbs in?

• Past

• Present

• Future

What type of verb are these?

• Transitive

• Intransitive

• Linking

• State of Being

LINKING verbs can be replaced by a form of be WITHOUT changing the meaning of a sentence.

Ex: They seemed happy can become They WERE happy.

• True

• False

These types of verbs are followed by an object, indicating WHO or WHAT received the action.

Ex: He kicked the ball. (kicked is the verb, the ball is what received the kicking)

• Linking

• State of Being

• Transitive

• Intransitive