Verbs — Answer Key
Part A: Multiple Choice
Circle the best answer for each question.
1. Which word is the verb in: She paints a pretty picture?
A) she
B) pretty
C) picture
D) paints
Skip means a bouncy kind of step-and-hop movement you do with your feet. Any word that names an action like this is a verb.
2. Which sentence has a verb about the past?
A) I will run tomorrow.
B) He walked home yesterday.
C) She is jumping now.
D) They play every day.
Mom names who, laundry names what, but folds tells what she is doing — making the clothes neat. Folds is the action.
3. Pick the verb that means to make something.
A) break
B) build
C) big
D) bright
Snaps has an -s ending (not -ed or -ing), which means the action is happening now. Present tense shows what's going on today.
4. What is the verb in: The bird sings every morning?
A) bird
B) every
C) morning
D) sings
This group of words only names and describes a horse — it never tells what the horse is doing. Without an action word, it is not a complete sentence.
Part B: Fill in the Blank
Write the correct answer on each line.
1. The baby laughs when she is happy.
Tugs is the pulling action the puppy does with its teeth. Puppy and rope are things; tugs is the action between them.
2. We built a snowman last winter.
Past tense means the action is finished and in the past. So a past-tense verb tells what already happened — it is done.
3. He is riding his bike right now.
Peeks means to sneak a quick look, and that is what she is doing at the window. It is the one action word in the sentence.
4. They wash the dishes after dinner.
Look at the last three letters of snapping — they are i, n, g. That -ing ending tells us the snapping is happening right now.
5. I learned a new game yesterday.
Mop is how they clean the floor — pushing a wet mop back and forth. Kitchen and floor are places; mop is the doing word.