PARTS OF SPEECH

A Grammar Review
VERBS
A word that describes an action or a
state of being

A sentence has two parts: a subject

(noun or pronoun) and a predicate (tells
what the subject is or does.

Verbs are part of the predicate.

There are four types:

Action
Linking
Helping
Verb-phrases
ACTION VERBS Examples:
Action verbs tell what the subject does.
Adam Smith believed laissez-faire
For example: clap, scream, laugh. capitalism was the ideal economic
model.
They can be transitive or intransitive.

Transitive verbs need a direct object.

The kid dropped the ball
Intransitive verbs do not need a direct object.
Sarah’s bad mark killed her drive to be an academic
weapon.
Karl Marx and Fredrich Engels
collaborated to write the Communist
manifesto.
LINKING VERBS
Linking verbs join the subject and the predicate. They do not
show action. Instead, they help the words at the end of the
sentence name and describe the subject.

The most common examples include

be
feel
seem
smell
remain
appear
sound
stay
turn
become

Examples:
Writing an essay in 3 hours seems complicated.
Canadian politics has become a spectacle.