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Verb, 280. See also Subject-verb agreement
action, 281, 283

to be, 281, 301, 432-33

conjugating, 299, 300

ending in s, 300

finding, 284-85

irregular, 288-95
linking, 280-83

prepositional phrases, 286-88

present-tense, 299-300, 301

regular, 288-89

vivid, descriptive, 433-34

Verbal phrase fragments, 344-37
to, 344-45

-ed and -en, 346-47

-ing, 345-46

Verb shifts, 410-21

active voice and passive voice, 415-21
in tense, 411-15

Verb tense chart, 411-12

Verb tense timeline, 411

Visualizing

argument essay, 232
cause-effect essay, 221

classification essay, 178

comparison-contrast essay, 210

definition essay, 168

descriptive essay, 124