Linking Verbs Teacher Resources

Part of exploring parts of speech is being able to distinguish between linking verbs and action verbs. One implies a stat of being, and one expresses an action. After reviewing the definition briefly, provide your middle schoolers with...

Check out this cute online interactive activity. Pupils fill in the blank for each of the 10 sentences with one of four helping or linking verbs. Verbs focused on include was, were, wasn't, and weren't.

In this grammar worksheet, students fill in forty blanks with the appropriate helping/linking verb as requested and then fill in ten blanks in sentences with either doesn't or don't.

How are linking verbs and action verbs different? First, study the definitions and examples of each (at the top of the first page). Then, assess the comprehension skills of your class by having them complete the 20-question practice...

Have your Spanish language learners brainstorm a list of action verbs and another list of auxiliary/ linking verbs. Depending on your class, you might want to provide a list of verbs for them to organize into these categories. 

In this linking verbs and adjectives worksheet, students choose phrases from a word bank to complete conversations. Students match phrases to six sentence.  

For this linking verbs worksheet, students fill in 10 fill in the blank answers about the notes they read and read and underline the linking verb in 10 sentences. Students use the verb look as a linking verb in a complete sentence.

In this grammar instructional activity, students learn about using linking verbs in sentence writing. They then use what they read to answer the 12 problems on the instructional activity. The answers are on the last page of the packet.

In this linking verbs activity, students circle the linking verbs and underline the adjective or noun it represents. Students complete 9 sentences.

In this linking verbs worksheet, students read about the proper usage of the verb to be. They underline the verb, to be, in 5 sentences, write the eight words that form the verb, and fill in the blank with the proper verb form in 6...

In this action and linking verbs worksheet, students label words as either action and linking verbs. Students label 12 words and underline subjects and verbs in 8 sentences.

In this linking verbs learning exercise, students practice their grammatical skills as they underline the linking verbs in 10 sentences.

In this linking verbs and adjectives instructional activity, students read 6 conversations and fill in the blanks in each of them with the appropriate phrases.

In this helping and linking verbs worksheet, students use the sentence starters and drop a line to create sentences that contain both helping and linking verbs.

In this grammar worksheet, students choose the appropriate verb or helping/linking verbs in twenty sentences that make each one grammatically correct.

In this predicate noun worksheet, students identify predicate nouns in sentences. In this word/predicate noun recognition worksheet, students draw lines under the nine answers.

Copulative verbs, also known as linking verbs, "link" subjective complements and the original noun, basically renaming the noun. The copulative verb acts like an equal sign. Follow Yossarian the Grammarian as he explains several sentence...

Identify action verbs and decide whether they are transitive or intransitive. After labeling fourteen sentences and their verbs, learners move on to distinguish action verbs from linking verbs in twenty additional sentences. The...

English language learners or native elementary schoolers will enjoy practicing their parts of speech with this interactive grammar game. Set deep in the backwoods of Tennessee,  the class splits in two to join either the Hartfields...

For this grammar worksheet, students drop the there, rearrange the remaining words and choose the appropriate verb that completes ten sentences grammatically correct.

In this grammar worksheet, students fill in fifty blanks with the correct form of to be (am, is, are, has, have, doesn't or don't) on the lines provided that make each phrase or sentence grammatically correct.

Have your class engage in this excellent language arts presentation on verbs. The focus is on the differences between action verbs and state of being verbs. Students choose the state of being verbs on one slide, and move on when they are...

The Renaissance is the theme of a five-week unit designed to boost reading comprehension, spelling, vocabulary, and expository writing skills. Scholars listen to and discuss daily readings and engage in skills practice activities...

In this helping and linking verbs worksheet, students create 16 different sentences that use either helping or linking verbs by connecting subjects with predicates that are arranged around a bulls-eye graphic organizer.