Verbs — Answer Key
Part A: Multiple Choice
Circle the best answer for each question.
1. Which word is a verb in: The tall boy runs fast.
A) tall
B) boy
C) runs
D) fast
Tall describes the boy and fast tells how, but runs is what his body is actually doing. Only runs names the action.
2. Which sentence uses jumped correctly?
A) The jumped is big.
B) She jumped over the puddle.
C) Jumped the blue cat.
D) He is jumped happy.
Jumped is past tense, so the subject (she) needs to match one jumper. The puddle sentence works because she could really leap over a puddle.
3. What is the verb in: We eat lunch at noon?
A) we
B) lunch
C) noon
D) eat
Lunch names the food and noon names the time, but eat is what we actually do at the table. The doing word is eat.
4. Which word is NOT a verb?
A) sing
B) dance
C) book
D) swim
A book is a thing you can hold in your hands — that makes it a noun, not a verb. The other choices are actions you can do.
Part B: Fill in the Blank
Write the correct answer on each line.
1. Yesterday, she walked to the store.
Yesterday means it already happened, so we add -ed to walk. Walked is the past form that matches yesterday.
2. Right now, he is singing a song.
Right now tells us the action is happening this second, so we use the -ing form. Singing shows the song is in progress.
3. The children played in the yard.
Played tells us what the children did in the yard — running, jumping, having fun. The -ed ending makes it past tense.
4. I will finish my homework tonight.
Will points to the future, so we use the base form — finish. It is the action that will happen tonight.
5. The dog jumped over the fence.
To get to the other side of a fence, a dog needs to leap up and over — that is jumped. The -ed shows it already happened.