Verb

VERB Verbs. What is a verb? A verb is a word which describes the action in a sentence (the doing word) Examples I play football. They skip quickly. We eat spaghetti. Bob is seven today. Can you spot the words which are verbs? sun pink pig jump sit cup happy One way to check if a word is a verb is to see if it can be changed Changing verbs. Verb Tenses Verb tenses describe WHEN the action is happening. PRESENT (it's happening NOW.) PAST (it's ALREADY happened.) FUTURE (it's ABOUT to happen.) Present tense to past tense The following sentences are written in the present tense. Try changing them to the past tense by putting Yesterday at the beginning of each. I walk to school. They jump the rope. Bob looks at the bug. I play football. How have the verbs changed? Which word in each sentence changes? How did you do? Yesterday I walked to school. Yesterday they jumped quickly. Yesterday Bob looked at the bug. Yesterday I played football. Is there a spelling pattern connecting the changes to these verbs? Spot the pattern Put these sentences into the past. Think how the verbs would alter this time. She hops over the cracks. The cow skips over the moon. I bat the ball in the garden. You tap on the window. How did you do? She hopped over the cracks. The cow skipped over the moon. I batted the ball in the garden. You tapped on the window. How have these words altered? Similar words. Different rules tap tape hop hope I always tape my favourite TV shows. We hope we win the race. hope tape hoped taped To investigate spelling rules that are used in verb tense changes. Match the rule to each set of words. (or Challenge can you write your own rules?) Think of more examples that use these rules. Write your own rules for verbs ending in e, in x. ...