Strong Verbs

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Strong Verbs

• 8w
• 10/6
• by Student 42

 

 

 

Verb : an action word that tells what something is doing

 

 

• Examples:
  • run, walk, laugh, think, subtract, sit, dream, imagine

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• Verb Tests:
  • Is your word a verb? Test the base word in these sentences:
    • Let us ________________.
    • Yesterday, I _______________.

 

• Example:
  • working: base word = work__
  • Let us __work .
  • Yesterday, I worked .
    • Work could be a verb.

 

• Remember: how a word is used determines if it is a verb.

1. Kay worked hard in class.
2. The work we completed included counting equipment and cleaning floors.

• The first work is a verb: it tells what Kay did ---she worked. It tells her actions.

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Stong Verb : a specific action word that creates an image in the readers's mind

 

 

• Examples:
  • __Run__ is an action verb, but these verbs represent strong verbs:
    • sprint, jog, dart, dash, scurry, scamper
      • Yesterday, I sprinted across the parking lot to Mom's Chevy Silverado.
      • Last week I jogged two miles every day.
      • Sam darted between the cars in the crowded parking lot, chased by a poodle!
      • Sally dashed onto the front porch to avoid the suddent downpour.
      • A squirrel scurried across the freshly mowed lawn and scampered up the thick bark of the Ponderosa Pine.

 

 

• __Laugh__ is an action verb, but these verbs demonstrate strong verbs:
  • chuckle, cackle, giggle, guffaw, snicker
    • Willy chuckled when John belly-flopped into the icy water.
    • John cackled hysterically when Willy also slammed into the chilly waves of the lake.
    • When the twins giggled at their little brother's baby-talk, he chattered more.
    • When Sara finished her joke, her friends guffawed for almost ten minutes, waking up Sara's parents.
    • Sally snickered when the stink bug fell off curb and into the street.

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Incorporate strong verbs as much as possible in your writing; elminate dead verbs. Dead verbs include is, am, are, was, were, have, has, had, take, took, run, ran, go, went, give, -ing words, etc.

 

Assignment: Keep a list of strong verbs in your notebook.

 

 

Assignment: Add to this StudentVerbs page to display your original strong verb paragraph. StudentVerbs

 

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