Identifying Subjects and Verbs

Who's doing what and what's it doing?

Skill #1: Identifying Verbs

Verbs do two things:

1. They show action (run/ran, jump(ed), sing/sung, etc.) (Action Verbs)

2. They show a state of being: is, was, are, were, will be (Linking Verbs)

Learn More about Verbs:

https://www.englishgrammar101.com/module-3/verbs-types-tenses-and-moods/lesson-3/action-vs-linking-verbs

https://www.dummies.com/education/language-arts/grammar/linking-verbs-versus-action-verbs/

https://gato-docs.its.txstate.edu/jcr:f65012ef-9608-4ee0-a0be-9559038bc97c/Verbs-Types%20and%20Tenses.pdf

Videos

Practice

https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/grammar/parts-of-speech-the-verb/introduction-to-verbs/v/introduction-to-verbs-the-parts-of-speech-grammar

https://www.ixl.com/ela/grade-5/identify-main-verbs-and-helping-verbs

https://www.ixl.com/ela/grade-2/identify-action-verbs

Videos

Skill #2: Identifying Subjects

The subject of the sentence is the thing (person, place or thing) that is doing that action or is being connected to an action with the linking verb (is, was, were, are, will be, has been, have been).

Learn more about Subjects Identification at the following sites:

https://libguides.daltonstate.edu/c.php?g=267539&p=2457903

https://www.thoughtco.com/exercises-in-identifying-subjects-and-verbs-1692398

Practice

https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/grammar/syntax-sentences-and-clauses

https://www.ixl.com/ela/grade-3/identify-the-simple-subject-or-predicate-of-a-sentence

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