Verbs What is a verb A verb is

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.

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 eat spaghetti. They skip quickly. Bob is seven. I play football. How have the verbs changed?

How did you do? • • Yesterday, I ate spaghetti. Yesterday, they skipped quickly. Yesterday, Bob was seven. Yesterday, I played football.

Past to present These sentences are in the past. Change them to the present by putting today at the front of each. • • Sarah felt hot. The cow jumped over the moon. John sat outside in the garden. The mouse ran up the clock.

How did you do? • • Today, Sarah feels hot. Today, the cow jumps over the moon. Today, John sits outside in the garden. Today, the mouse runs up the clock.

The future tense. • The future tense is used to describe what will or could happen. Change these sentences to the future tense by adding tomorrow at the start of each. • • Jack and Jill went up the hill. Thomas chased the mouse. Lucy entered the wardrobe. Bo Peep lost her sheep.

How did you do? • • Tomorrow Jack and Jill could/will go up the hill. Tomorrow Thomas could/will chase the mouse. Tomorrow Lucy could/will enter the wardrobe. Tomorrow Bo Peep could/will lose her sheep. Task sheet – Using verbs

Adverbs What is an adverb? • Adverbs are words that tell us more about verbs. They add information to the verb to make the sentence more interesting. • Examples The girl smiled nervously. The boy grinned sheepishly. The light shone feebly.

When to use adverbs • Adverbs are used to say how, where, when and how often something happens. • Examples The family walk (how? ) quickly. I looked (where) everywhere for my keys. I met him (when) yesterday. She gets the bus (how often? ) daily.