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Verb identification: Activity 1

Which words do you think are verbs?

VERBS
?
NOT VERBS
Christmas
say
see
go
take
think
an
obvious
year
through
last
running
saw
before
next

Which words are doing words? If they are, they may be verbs.

VERBS
?
NOT VERBS
Christmas
say
see
go
take
think
an
obvious
year
through
last
running
saw
before
next

Which words can show tense? Can you say Yesterday, I ____ed, for example? If so, it's probably a verb.

VERBS
?
NOT VERBS
Christmas
say
see
go
take
think
an
obvious
year
through
last
running
saw
before
next

Which words add -s to agree with a Subject like he or she, as in He ___s.

VERBS
?
NOT VERBS
Christmas
say
see
go
take
think
an
obvious
year
through
last
running
saw
before
next

Which words can take an -ing ending? If they can, they're probably verbs.

VERBS
?
NOT VERBS
Christmas
say
see
go
take
think
an
obvious
year
through
last
running
saw
before
next

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