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Language. Verbs
A VERB is a very important part of a sentence it indicates an action, an event or a state of being. The action is being done by the subject.
The three main types of verbs are action, linking, and helping verbs. ACTIoN VERBs are something a person or thing does. It can be
physical, mental or show ownership.
Examples:
Scrooge signed it.
The clerk in the tank involuntarily applauded.
Read the paragraph below. Circle all the action verbs you can find.
They stood in the city streets on Christmas morning. There was nothing very cheerful in the climate or the town, and yet there was an air of cheerfulness abroad that the clearest summer air and brightest summer sun might have endeavored to diffuse in vain. The people were jovial and full of glee; calling out to one another from the parapets, exchanging snowballs, laughing heartily. The poulterers’ shops were still half open, and the fruiterers’ were radiant in their glory. The steeples called all good people to church and chapel, and away they came, flocking through the streets in their best clothes, and with their gayest faces. The sight of these revelers appeared to interest the Spirit very much for he stood with Scrooge beside him in a baker’s doorway, and sprinkled incense from his torch on their heads as they passed. It was a very uncommon kind of torch, for once or twice when there were angry words between some of them, he shed a few drops of water on them from it, and their good humor was restored directly. For they said, it was a shame to quarrel on Christmas Day. And so it was! God love it, so it was!
114 The Red Feather Literature Second Course