Page 38 - Blue Feather Book 2

Read the sentences. Circle the action verbs, underline the helping verbs and cross out the linking verbs.
1. A high summer flood washed him out of the burrow.
2. He found a little wisp of grass floating there.
3. He was lying in the hot sun on the middle of a garden path.
4. Rikki became angry .
5. They took him into the house.
6. They wrapped him in cotton wool.
7. He nearly drowned himself in the bath-tub.
8. At nightfall he ran into Teddy’s nursery.
9. The mangooses are light sleepers.
10. Rikki-tikki was awake on the pillow.
11. Teddy’s mother wouldn’t think of anything so awful.
12. Rikki-tikki came to early breakfast in the veranda.
13. They had made a beautiful nest.
14. This is a great story.
15. Nag was thinking to himself.
16. She had crept up behind him as he was talking.
17. He came down almost across her back.
18. But Darzee had built it out of reach of snakes.
Rikki-Tikki-Tavi 35 by Rudyard Kipling