Verbs
You learn to find the verb: the word for what someone does or is.
How to do the test
- Ask what is happening in the sentence.
- Change the time, from yesterday to today.
- The word that changes is the verb.
Tap the verb. The dog barked loudly.
- A verb tells you what someone or something does or is.
- Change the time of the sentence: barked becomes barks.
- Only a verb can change like that.
- Barked is the verb.
More examples
Tap the verb. We ate lunch outside.
- A verb tells you what someone or something does or is.
- Change the time of the sentence: ate becomes eat.
- Only a verb can change like that.
- Ate is the verb.
Tap the verb. The bell rang at noon.
- A verb tells you what someone or something does or is.
- Change the time of the sentence: rang becomes rings.
- Only a verb can change like that.
- Rang is the verb.