This page focuses on verbs including definitions, action and non-action verbs, verb tenses, and verb moods with examples for all of the above.

[Free Registration/Login Required] Provides worksheets to use with learners explaining the different types of verbs and how to use them. There is one five page mini-unit on simple present, past and future tenses. Also included are a cut...

A nine-part learning module with links to texts, videos, images, and websites to use while learning about action, linking, and helping verbs.

Printable information is provided that demonstrates how to identify a verb phrase in the context of a sentence.

This video lesson focuses on verbs: action, linking, and helping. It defines each, explains how they work in a sentence, and how to identify them. Real Player is required.

Present progressives describe an action in progress, or something that started in the past and is still happening. It is formed with the helping "to be" verb in the present tense and the present participle of the verb. [0:42]

When given a sentence, students will choose the correct verb that will complete the sentence. Student will be analyzing and applying the correct verb tense.

[Free Registration/Login Required] Students will define the terms verb, linking verb, action verb, helping verb, being verb, irregular verb, and verb tense and provide examples of each type of verb. They also will identify and classify...

Literacy Education Online (or LEO) is a great place to start if you need help with your writing. The homepage is organized around kinds of problems or questions you might have concerning your writing. Find your problem, click on the...

This handbook provides step-by-step modules to help you develop an appropriate business writing style. It also gives you rules for punctuation and "plain English." Answers are provided for exercises. PDF document.

This site shows how to repair run-on sentences. Students and teachers will find this interactive resource helpful.

This site from Schoolhouse Rock provides a popular song favorite from the 1970s cartoon series that will help you remember what verbs are and how to recognize them. The lyrics are provided along with a picture.

A very creative way to practice learning the differences between the preterite and the imperfect tenses. Read three different stories and select the appropriate tense in the story. A brief explanation is given with each answer you select.

[Free Registration/Login Required] This simple activity will enhance the descriptive writing of primary aged children. By building upon each page of the flipchart over a period of several days, it makes the students more aware of nouns,...