Verb Tense

Verbs: Dialogue Tags and Ways to Say "Went."

Add "rasped."  Can you think of others to add?
Extra credit is available if you can think of tags to add to this.  

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Wednesday, May 5, 2011

Bell-Ringer: Identifying verbs  -- Parts of Speech 2001 p 1-4 .doc


Parts of Speech
Verbs
     Verb Pictionary
    

A lot of spelling errors happen with "alot."    Go to this post: Alot?
If you really do want to say that you have a lot of money (don't you wish!), spell it "a lot."
The alot is an imaginary animal that English teachers visualize when students spell it incorrectly. 


External Text Features -- We will redo the test on Friday. Prepare to take it if you did not get a perfect score. 


More of Stand Tall by Joan Bauer -- contemporary realistic fiction novel
A1 -- 5 to page 14
A2 -- 18 to page 26 break  -- Do you agree or disagree that "No one can make you feel inferior without your consent"?  Explain and tell how that applies to your life?
A3 -- 14 to page 26 break -- Didn't yet do the comp. book prompt. Do you agree or disagree that "No one can make you feel inferior without your consent"?  Explain and tell how that applies to your life?
A4 -- 12 to top of page 21 -- wrote about grandparents




Reminder:  Don't forget to hand in your three papers for the April Book-of-the-Month assessment.  If you need more explanations and examples, there are handouts with the extra copies of the assignments in the folders at the back of our classroom.   

Verb (Parts of Speech) exercises at http://grammar.about.com/od/tests/a/ExSubjectsVerbs.htm

Transitive and Intransitive Verbs -- Huh?

Some verbs take a direct object. (Transitive) They do something to something.

need       “I need money.”

hit          “I hit the ball.”

kick         “I kicked my brother.”

destroy  “The transformer destroyed the city.

kiss        “I kissed Ernestine.”

The verb “lay” takes a direct object. It is transitive.

      “I carefully laid the beef roast inside the bars of the lion’s cage.”

  [The forms of the verb are lay, laid, has been laying, has laid.]

Some verbs do not take a direct object. (Intransitive)  They just do.

looked     “I looked, but didn’t see anything.” 

slept        “I slept all night.”

The verb “lie” does not take a direct object. 

 [The forms of the verb are lie, lay, has been lying, has lain.]

Some verbs can be either transitive or intransitive: shook, felt, read.

 

Illustrations from  http://funny-cats.blogspot.com/2006/03/cat-kiss.html and http://www.myfreewallpapers.net/cartoons/pages/sleeping-snoopy.shtml

http://www.inspirationfalls.com/beginning-and-ending-shake-hands/shake-hands-concepts-3/ 

January 26/27, 2009

Self-starter: Activity with Question-Answer Relationships
Compare video and book. (chapters 1 and 2) -- Create a chart in your composition book.
Learning about sentence composition: Subjects, Verbs, and Direct Objects.

Places on the web to learn about sentence composition:
http://www.learnenglish.de/grammar/sentencetext.htm
http://www.leasttern.com/Grammar/humbugsubpred.html

If time: chapter 3 of Words By Heart


Next time we'll start working on using the verbs lie and lay.

You could go to this site for information about using the verbs lie and lay:
http://www.chompchomp.com/rules/irregularrules02.htm

Go here for a quiz on lie and lay: Take and print the quiz for extra credit.
http://www.english-zone.com/verbs/lie-lay1.html